Glebe Colliery

21/02/2022

A few Photos from Usworth Colliery

05/12/2019

Take a trip back to the past, what do you remember?

27/11/2019

A Collection of Photos and memories of Washington (Glebe) Colliery and the surrounding areas. A Few additions also from Washington F Pit

23/08/2019

Part One....

1984 - The Miners Strike remembered as it should not be forgotten how life was changed forever for everyone and future generations.

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This was produced during the 1984 Miners Strike with approval of the NUM, as part of the Miners Campaign Tape Project. Tape 1 is titled Not Just Tea and Sand...

22/08/2019

Easington Colliery Disaster news clip shown in the cinima before TV

19/08/2019

This candid, observational Tyne Tees TV news feature powerfully communicates the raw experience of a pitmans shift at Dawdon Colliery in 1967 the heat, dirt, cramped tunnels and deafening noise of coal-cutting machines and conveyors. Without commentary, this film recalls a vanished era of courage and camaraderie for the miners working in hellish conditions two miles out and 1,000 feet below the North Sea, off the Durham coastline.

Grit, grime and graft fathoms beneath the North Sea for coal miners at Dawdon Colliery.

17/08/2019

1984 Miners Strike Usworth/Glebe

A Collection of Photos and memories of Washington (Glebe) Colliery and the surrounding areas. A Few additions also from Washington F Pit