Ashington Colliery Remembered.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 210+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Ashington Colliery,Northumberland. Sunk in 1867 and sadly closed in 1988. The new village of Ashington sprung up alongside this mine. Over time settlers in the new village would come from the nearby countryside or neighbouring colliery villages as well as from more distant places such as Cornwall and Ireland.
Ashington’s first two streets in the pit village were called Long Row and Cross Row. They were located in what is now the far north western corner of the town close to where the first pit of the colliery was located. Initially Ashington Colliery was linked by rail via the Ashington wagonway to what is now the East Coast Main Line to the west but from 1872 it was more significantly connected to a new branch of the Blyth and Tyne Railway just to the east of the village. This entered the Ashington area from the south and connected the colliery to the docks of the Tyne. In 1988 Ashington Colliery closed, bringing a sad end to the industry that had brought about the town’s very existence. Many of the miners were transferred to the neighbouring Ellington Colliery to the north. Today, the former Ashington colliery site is now the Wansbeck Business Park to the north of Ashington (although the actual river is south of the town) and this has helped to bring some new employment to Ashington . .

[@gordontaylor5373]

Those blokes are sorely missed.

[@bigteno4597]

A very special breed of man!

[@steveforster9764]

From Newbiggin Dad worked down Ellington I enlisted 1980 got out of town

[@dianehorner3985]

I remember Ashington in the 70s. My step grandfather came from there! I loved going there on "holiday". He lived on Eighth Row!

[@sicks6six]

Did my underground training at Ashington colliery in the 1970s. Was a busy town with no empty shops or charity shops. All the young kids worked at a pit or in a supply industry with good wages. Not now.

[@alexfogg381]

God bless all coal miners.

[@paulnolan1352]

Didn’t jack charlton work here before he turned professional?.Another great video Michael.

[@dianehorner3985]

My "step" grandfather worked in this colliery. I had many a holiday in Ashington! My grandmother stayed there until a few years after Bart died. They lived in Eighth Row, many happy memories of this place

[@dianehorner3985]

His son was George Redpath married to Eleanor. Their children Angela and ?

[@bernadettebarry3099]

Was this the pit where the charlton brothers father worked thank you

[@dianehorner3985]

My step grandfather worked there!

[@philjoneshammersley]

A Great & touching video, thanks for sharing.. 😁 A lot of my family members worked here ...my grandad..uncles...cousins...so proud of them. Who sang the song please?