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Ashington Colliery (c. 1935)

 

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Ashington Colliery - Click for bigger imageA view looking across to Ashington Colliery. Discoveries of rich coal seams brought about the development of the area in the 1880s. The colliery itself opened in 1867.

 

Northumberland Archives Service holds over 120,000 photographic images relating to the history of the county of Northumberland. The quality of the photographs mounted on this website has been reduced. High quality photographic or digital copies of these, and of other photographs from our collections, are available by contacting the Archives Service.