Wash House Pit (Blackhouse Colliery)

HER Number

3916

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Wash House Pit (Blackhouse Colliery)

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

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the position of Wash House Pit (Coal). Closed May 1932, Owned by Birtley Iron Company, later Pelaw Main Collieries Co.

Easting

428040

Northing

555610

Grid Reference

NZ428040555610

Sources

<< HER 3916 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Colliery Engineering May 1930, "Pelaw Main Collieries"; N. Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield