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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Colliery Sinkers (c. 1908)

 

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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Colliery Sinkers - Click for bigger imagePhotograph of the Newbiggin Colliery Sinkers. Sinkers were men who actually dug out the pit shafts. This enabled the miners to get to the coal faces, often deep underground.

 

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.