Explore: Wallsend Colliery

Gently starring Martin Shaw. Much of Wallsend's early industry was driven by coal mining. The Wallsend Colliery consisted of seven pits which were active

West Wallsend's origins are in coal mining, the main concern being West Wallsend Colliery, from whose boundaries the old town grew. The West Wallsend Coal

Wallsend, Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company Wallsend Colliery 'B' Pit (1861- March 1935), Wallsend, Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company. Wallsend Colliery 'C'

the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company in the early 1860s to service their collieries, and was enabled by the passage of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Railway

in 1835, 102 men and boys were killed by a firedamp explosion in a Wallsend colliery working the Bensham seam, described at the subsequent inquest by John

colliery viewer, a calling which he helped to develop towards the modern concept of a mining engineer. He succeeded his father as manager at Wallsend

1880s. It was renamed to Young Wallsend in 1885. The Young Wallsend Coal Company opened a colliery in 1890. The colliery ceased operations in the early

two coal roads run to the Newcastle coal lines, which serve a number of collieries along the route. Maitland is the junction of the North Coast line which

insufficient energy to ignite firedamp until a series of explosions at Wallsend colliery in 1784; a further explosion in June 1785, which the operator of the

Pit[permanent dead link] "WALLSEND COLLIERY EXPLOSION – WALLSEND – 1835". Northern Mines Research Society. Retrieved 18 April 2023. "Naval Colliery disasters". Welsh