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Description: | High Heworth Colliery, on Albion Street, was worked by the Blacketts from about 1701. The High Main seam, reached in 1762, was nearly exhausted in 1819 and a new pit was sunk, a little to the south east, on the road to Whitehill. Heworth Colliery was a typical mining village, being clustered around twin shafts (one of which was the Ada Pit), the walled pit yard and the growing slag heaps near Whitehill. The first terraced rows were built in the 1860s. By the 1870s there was a Primitive Methodist Chapel at the pithead, a National School, two pubs and a smithy. | 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 Churches and Chapels | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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