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Drawing Of The Colliery - South Hetton (sout0051)

School Children (Left - Mr Lindsay)
Boys School With Mr Henderson

Photograph of an engraving of the buildings of the colliery at South Hetton; the picture shows houses with long chimneys on the left and, next to them, a low building with a high chimney and behind that building a higher one with a lower chimney from which smoke is pouring; in the middle of the picture, the winding gear can be seen and on its right another building and another tall chimney; a cart can be seen in the foreground

Drawing Of The Colliery - South Hetton

Photograph of an engraving of the buildings of the colliery at South Hetton; the picture shows houses with long chimneys on the left and, next to them, a low building with a high chimney and behind that building a higher one with a lower chimney from which smoke is pouring; in the middle of the picture, the winding gear can be seen and on its right another building and another tall chimney; a cart can be seen in the foreground

Date: 1850

This picture appeared in 'The Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, February 28 to March 31, 1835, Collieries No 1, South Hetton Colliery'. This was very soon after the Colliery started production in about 1833.

Comment added by J. Marshall on 18/03/2009 12:46:00

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