Ravensworth Ann Colliery, Street Pit

HER Number

3874

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ravensworth Ann Colliery, Street Pit

Place

Birtley

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Street Pit (Coal). Ravensworth Ann Colliery (or Team Colliery) opened in 1726 and closed in 1973. Owners were WW Burdon, then AE Burdon, then Charles Perkins & Partners, Birtley Iron Company, Pelaw Main Collieries Ltd, then from 1947 the National Coal Board.

Easting

427040

Northing

557460

Grid Reference

NZ427040557460

Sources

<< HER 3874 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk