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Description: | The earliest recorded coal mining was in 1351 and when John Wesley visited in 1743, he described Birtley as, "surrounded by collieries on every side". This situation continued until the nineteen sixties when the trade declined. The last coal mined in Gateshead was at Marley Hill Colliery near Whickham in the early nineteen eighties. This photograph shows the colliery band preparing for the Durham Miners' Gala. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | World War One Strikes and protests | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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