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Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Norman Dunn on 16/10/2025, 9:42 am

As mentioned in a thread below, here is a lovely Postcard from my archive of local images.

Wallsend-Colliery-1910

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Peter on 16/10/2025, 12:19 pm, in reply to "Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Excellent photo from 115 years ago.

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Stan Wears on 18/10/2025, 8:14 am, in reply to "Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Norman, I had a friend in the 60's lived in Pegswood and he took me to his club. An old miner and I got talking and he asked me my name and where I came from. I was shocked to learn that he knew Ted Wears, the father of the late Walter Wears. All through seams meeting up. Ted worked at the Rising Sun....

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Norman on 18/10/2025, 12:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

At Wardley Colliery there was a network of old roadways.The old Fitter I was working with one time showed me around some of them.I remember a sealed off(Bricked up) roadway that had led to Felling Colliery. As Ive said already there was a main roadway big enough for a Metro Train to go through from Wardley to Follonsby & then on to Usworth Colliery. Usworth would have been linked to the two Washington Collieries & they'd have been linked to other pits in the area.

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Carol in hampshire on 18/10/2025, 7:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Norman was Wardley colliery somewhere else in the area? AS I always thought Follonsby was Wardley pit??

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Norman on 19/10/2025, 9:28 am, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Hi Carol,
Follonsby & Wardley were under the same management in my day. To get to Wardley Colliery from Hebburn it was just half a mile from Bill Quay Bridge along Wardley Lane then over the Pelaw to Sunderland Railway lines.
From Wardley it was down Manor Gardens & over the bridge.
See photo below.The bare land where the Pit was is now a Persimmons Housing Estate called 'Birchwood Manor'.

Wardley

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Carol in hampshire on 19/10/2025, 11:20 am, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

So it would have been near the Reservoir???
My grandparents lived in Reservoir in 1937
then Palmer gardens from 1939

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Norman on 19/10/2025, 12:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Yes just a minute away from Reservoir st Carol.
I loved my time working at the pit. GREAT people the miners.

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Stan Wears on 19/10/2025, 5:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Norman during the 60's we had a group doing the clubs and my favourite ones were Blackhall,Dawdon, Easington, Seaham etc. The atmosphere was electric! Miners in their best suits and wives with blue rinses, dame Edna glasses and bingo dabbers. They were special and I'll always remember them.

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Norman on 19/10/2025, 7:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

STAN.
I always said Miners are 'the salt of the earth'.
Hard honest workers.

Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery

Posted by Stan Wears on 20/10/2025, 12:19 am, in reply to "Re: Hebburn and Wallsend Colliery"

Cream !

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