Explore rayneshouse's 260 photos on Flickr!
Photo: John Bulmer/Popperfoto
This group of miners have just ascended 1,400 feet from a plough face in the main coal seam at Dawdon Colliery. Photo: Sunderland Echo
Smokey and his big boy's toys 1
Dawdon Colliery Modernisation - 100 hp locomotive on loco drift. Date: 1960s Photo Number: 97227 From the Beamish Collections.
EPW045927 ENGLAND (1934). Dawdon Colliery, Seaham, from the south, 1934 | Britain From Above
Dawdon Colliery Modernisation - two miners having a discussion underground on the Loco haulage road. Date 1960s Photo Number: 97226 From the Beamish Collections.
An NCB Barclay loco hauls Waggons of colliery waste away from Dawdon Colliery (Seaham) for disposal. March 1981.
An NCB Andrew Barclay drawpasses a long rake of 'fulls' from Dawdon Colliery near the BR reception area at Seabanks Junction.May 1981.
+Reed John: Commemorated: The Marquess of Londonderry Roll of Honour for Dawdon Colliery includes the name Reed Jno. Photo Credit Brian Scollen
Dawdon Colliery, 1983
Interior of coal washing plant, Dawdon Colliery.- 29th Aug 1960.
At Dawdon Colliery Andrew Barclay 1321 (built 1913) looks a bit high & dry with all wheels out. I'm not sure if it was being repaired or broken up. It was in green livery as NCB Easington No. 24.
An NCB Barclay Shunter at the junction between the line from Seaham Colliery with some NCB waggons.In the background is Dawdon Signal Box. May 1981.
Blackhall Colliery, the village, is on the North Sea coast of County Durham, to its north is Blackhall Rocks that the above pictured Horden Railway Station served . The North Eastern Railway began construction of a Seaham to Hartlepool line in 1899 - a project that required the construction of substantial viaducts over four large denes and some lesser ones. The most visually impressive being that of Seaton Carew. Note ; in the counties of Durham (and Northumberland) a dene is a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn flows, two local examples being Castle Eden Dene and Crimdon Dene. When Dawdon Railway Viaduct was completed in 1905 Hartlepool, Hart, Blackhall, Horden, Easington (Colliery), Seaham, Ryhope (East) and Sunderland were linked together. Blackhall Colliery, was named after a local farm which had existed for centuries. The place-name for the colliery village built to serve the new pit came only with general public knowledge and as the workers houses became occupied as its streets were built and named. [It had the same owners, the Horden Coal Company (effectively Pease & Partners), as Horden.] The pits first coal was brought up in 1913. The Blackhall pit sinkers - those who dug and constructed it - and their families had to live in huts and even caves on the beach. Initially the only road into Blackhall Colliery village was from Hesleden and Castle Eden. The coast road from Hartlepool to Easington came much later. Blackhall's coal pit ( closed in 1981 and now completely dismantled ) was sunk circa 1910/1913 during years of coal mining profitability. Blackhall Colliery - the village, Blackhall Rocks and its neighbours Castle Eden Dene, and Castle Eden Dene Mouth are on the A1086 Harden to Peterlee and Hartlepool road. www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/25109449919/in/datepos...
