Tribute To Ashington Colliery And Its Proud Coal Miners.

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 .

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One of some great collieries in Northumbria

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My grandfather and uncles worked there , there surnames were Nelson lived in Longhirst.

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Jimmy Agnew always gets in the photo

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Purple scad chips n gravy Friday 👍😢

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my grandfather Lolek Dytrych worked there many years until its closure

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I think my grandad did,, Geordie Nelson.

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Was the biggest mining town in the world

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Michael, if your vids were put on the bbc they would win awards, the content is so much better than all the useless cackle you get on the box. Does anyone have nightmares about the props and square work, the gate ends were more dangerous than the somme, that coal face had a modern cutter but pre hydraulic chocs, where do you get all the old images from!