Memories Of Lynemouth Colliery.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 200+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Lynemouth Colliery,Morpeth,Northumberland, 1927 to ceasing production in 1994..The colliery was demolished in 2005. Economically, the rise of Lynemouth came in the 20th century. The Ashington Coal Company bought large amounts of land here in 1900 and began building a mining village. In 1921 there had been only four houses in Lynemouth and just a few years later, when Lynemouth Colliery was established in 1927, there were 500 houses. They were followed by shops, a Miner’s Welfare Institute, primary school, and a church. The church became a parish in its own right in 1961. The colliery combined with Ellington in 1983 and meant the effective closure of Lynemouth.
To the south of the village just outside the parish boundary is the former Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter and power station. The aluminium smelting process was powered by the adjacent coal-fired power station since it opened in 1972. The power station formerly belonging to Rio Tinto was sold in 2012 to RWE, one of Europe's leading energy companies, and now operates under the name 'Lynemouth Power Ltd.'
Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area played an important role in the 1985 feature length docu-drama Seacoal about the Seacoalers that make a living from collecting waste coal from the beach. Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area can be seen in the 2000 film Billy Elliot. Lynemouth Cemetery doubles as Everington Cemetery, in which Elliot's mother is buried. The colliery can be seen in scenes filmed at the cemetery.