Walbottle Colliery, Blucher Pit. This colliery was either sunk or renamed in 1815 following the Battle of Waterloo when two mines were named in honour of the victorious generals, Wellington and Blucher. Walbottle Colliery (HER 4229) opened before 1828. Owners in the 1850s were J. Lamb, Potters and Joblings Trustees, then R.O. Lamb, then Terale & Kirton, later Kirton, Rowell & Dodd, Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co and lastly Lemington Colliery Co ltd. Blucher Pit closed in 1867 but was reopened in 1900 by the Throckley Coal Company, the owners of pits at Heddon, Throckley and Newburn. In 1924/5 the Blucher Pit was closed in favour of workings at the reopened Coronation site (SMR 3984). Blucher started up again in 1938 but final closure came in 1956.

This site was proposed for the Newcastle local list in 2023 as 'North Walbottle Incline and Wagonway'. The local list description reads:
'Walbottle Wagonway, Coronation Pit branch was laid c.1820 and ran from Blucher Colliery to Lemington Staiths. It was improved and extended to North Walbottle Colliery (HER 4235) in 1892 and appears on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan of c.1895 renamed as the North Walbottle Wagonway. This wagonway ran on part of the line of the earlier Holywell Reins Wagonway (HER 1941). It closed in 1968 at which time it was the last self-acting incline in Northumberland. The railway tunnel which carried the wagonway was found to survive during a watching brief at a new coach depot at Blucher. The tunnel was 4 metres in width and over 2.3 metres high. It was of brick construction and had a roof of iron girders and concrete. The roof was only 0.2 metres below ground level. The tunnel had been bricked up to the north but remained open to the south.'
In December 1967 the Tyne Industrial Archaeology Group recorded the inclined plane. Cine film and photographs were taken. It was intended that there would be an exhibition at the proposed North Regional Open Air Museum (Beamish) of actual objects from the site and cartographic and documentary information.

Walbottle Brick Works. Only the chimney is still extant. Owned by Kirtons in 1927. The yard produced very good quality "Newburn" red bricks and "Walbottle" white bricks. Originally Walbottle firebrick works and owned by the Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Company, the brickworks stood beside the Union Pit. Kirton and Sons took over the brickyard in about 1912 and opened a shale quarry next to the mine. In addition, clay was extracted from a clay pit on Hogg’s Lonnen (Lemington Lane). In 1932, four old Newcastle kilns were demolished and replaced by an eight-chamber semi-continuous kiln whose flue was connected underground to the chimney of the main kiln. The brickworks closed from 1939 to 1945. The works then had two machines that could press 24,000 bricks each day. The bricks burned in a 16-chamber continuous kiln, each chamber holding 15,000 bricks. The chimney stood 150 feet tall and was demolished in 1979.
Dates: Walbottle firebrick works 1869 – 1906
Kirton’s Yard Newburn brickworks 1912 – 1965
Manufacturer from 1920-1965 was M Kirton and Sons.
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 86, 87 site 1, 89-90.)

A Sand Pit. The 2nd edition OS mapping shows an expansion of this site.

Newburn Bridge.

A Gravel Pit. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.

A plan made for the Duke of Northumberland in 1767 details his coal interests in the Lordship of Newburn (NRO: Zan Bell M17/197/A plan 24) but predates the development of Walbottle Colliery and its characteristic branching waggonways running to Greenwich Moor and Black Callerton. However, exploitation of the area was imminent; to the north of Walbottle is written ‘Coal that may be won by a Winning to the North side of the Dyke’ and a pumping engine is already present in Black Callerton Grounds (This is Engine Pit No. 2, a little way to the south of Andrew Pit as shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey). It would seem very likely that the waggonway system was in place by the end of the decade. It is shown on maps by Gibson (1781) and Casson (1801). The pattern of 18th century waggonways which formed the system is best seen on the first edition Ordnance Survey.

Duke Pit, on the western edge of the village of Walbottle, was sunk first, connected to coal staiths at Lemington. As further pits were sunk to the north, the waggonway was extended as a man line from Duke Pit to Cutend (HER 4271). From Cutend, the waggonway branched. The north-east line ran towards the settlement of Black Callerton and as far as Holywell Main Pit. A branch from this line (HER 4273) ran north to Broom Hall, the site of Black Callerton Pit, with short lines extending to adjacent pits. A short second line ran from Cut End to Walbottle Moor Pit. A final major branch ran to the north-west towards Crescent Farm and Greenwich Moor Pit a little way beyond (HER 4272). This branch included a short run to Callerton Lane End, the site of Callerton Grange Pit.

Walbottle Colliery School. This is not marked on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was possibly out of use by 1895.

Walbottle Colliery, Duke Pit. Could be as early as 1740. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895. Walbottle Colliery (HER 4229) opened before 1828. Owners in the 1850s were J. Lamb, Potters and Joblings Trustees, then R.O. Lamb, then Terale & Kirton, later Kirton, Rowell & Dodd, Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co and lastly Lemington Colliery Co ltd. Blucher Pit closed in 1867 but was reopened in 1900 by the Throckley Coal Company, the owners of pits at Heddon, Throckley and Newburn.

A Smithy. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.