Tyne and Wear HER(4031): Heaton Colliery, High Pit (E Pit) and The Spinney - Details
4031
Newcastle
Heaton Colliery, High Pit (E Pit) and The Spinney
Heaton
NZ26NE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Documentary Evidence
Heaton High Pit. The 2nd edition OS mapping shows the pit covered by trees, so probably out of use by 1895. The tree-planted mound (known as The Spinney) is believed to have been planted to commemorate those killed in the Heaton Colliery disaster of 3rd May 1815. A plaque was later set up by the National Union of Mine-Workers Northumberland area in November 1966. However, tree planting was common on disused mine sites and it is argued that this site has no significance to the disaster at all. (See HER 4149 for more information about the disaster). LOCAL LIST
426670
566910
NZ426670566910
<< HER 4031 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage