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Description: | Garesfield Colliery at High Spen was opened in 1837 by the Marquis of Bute with the sinking of Garesfield A Pit. This was followed by the Bute and Tilley Shafts and the Clinty, Towneley, Ruler and Tilley Drifts. The colliery had two banks of coke ovens - 116 in all. The Consett Iron Co took over the colliery in 1890 and remained in charge until nationalisation in 1947. The colliery closed in 1962. | 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: | Coal Industry | Temporal: | name=1920s; start=1920; end=1929; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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