Dawdon Colliery Remembered.

Subscribe To My KZbin Channel For 220+ More Coal Mine Tributes and counting . Dawdon Colliery was sunk in 1907 by the Sixth Marquess of Londonderry, when the workings at his Seaham Colliery became increasingly costly to work from the old shafts, as the mine pushed out to the south-east. The new shafts for Dawdon Colliery were sunk at the coast on a rocky promontory known as Noses Point, near Dawdon,County Durham. At that time Dawdon was a small village of 83 houses. Dawdon was extended by Londonderry, with the building of 20 streets of new housing to accommodate the rapidly growing workforce at the colliery. By 1910 the 3,300 miners at Dawdon Colliery were producing 1 million tons of hand-hewed coal per year. In 1930 the numbers employed at the colliery reached their peak at 3,798 (3,163 working below ground and 635 working on the surface).Dawdon Colliery sadly closed on the 25th of July, 1991.

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Respect for all coal miners past and present 🇬🇧⚒️

[@alanpercival840]

In 1970 i was 18 yr old working for a plant hire company who had ncb contract coming from weardale to dawdon was an eye open i drove loading shovels in the yard and up the field on stock piles on wknds worked with the yard gang mostly cleaning coal off the rail lines we would have our bait with the yard gang i learnt a lot about life ther pay day the lads would hand money over to the wives at the gate billy pig was in charge of them he had a tough time getting time sheets signed was a struggle any breakdown time was knocked off two local lads were johnny and ernie weller the hornsby bros were from easington as from 1973 onwards i spent 30 odd years in opencasts and quarries many times away from home but i will never forget time at dawdon

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Photo No 4 is Easington, immediately to the south of Dawdon

[@lucien3433]

Hello michael szepeta. I am journalist for the French TV channel France 24, I work on a show about climate and environment called Down to Earth. We are filming a documentary on the old UK coal mines this week and we are looking some archive footage. Would you authorize us to take a few shots from your Dawdon videos ? That would be very helpful to us... Thank you very much, kind regards.

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God bless and protect all coal miners.