Norwood Colliery

HER Number

3734

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Norwood Colliery

Place

Dunston

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Norwood Colliery, Lady Pit. Opened in the 1850s by John Bowes & Co. Later owned by John Bowes & Partners Ltd, then Dunston, Norwood and Swalwell Garesfield Coal Co., and lastly Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd.

Easting

423460

Northing

561880

Grid Reference

NZ423460561880

Sources

<< HER 3734 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield