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Seaham Colliery ‘Knack' High Pit - Seaham (seah0069)

Aerial View Of Vane Tempest
Dawdon Pit Reconstruction Showing Swimming Pool Area

Photograph of a long low building on the left of the picture, with a taller building at its end with a tall chimney behind it; on the right of the picture is a tall building with winding gear and other lower buildings around it; the two blocks of buildings form the two sides of a square; they have been identified as Seaham Colliery, Knack High Pit

Seaham Colliery ‘Knack' High Pit - Seaham

Photograph of a long low building on the left of the picture, with a taller building at its end with a tall chimney behind it; on the right of the picture is a tall building with winding gear and other lower buildings around it; the two blocks of buildings form the two sides of a square; they have been identified as Seaham Colliery, Knack High Pit

Date: 1940 - 1950


the pit chimmeny on the left of the picture my great grand father.wilkinson Rowell .who help biuld it bricklayer engineer .

Comment added by A. Rowell on 18/03/2009 10:05:00

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