Westerhope Heritage Wheel
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Westerhope Heritage Wheel by Anthony Foster as part of the Geograph project.
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Westerhope Heritage Wheel
Image: © Anthony Foster Taken: 19 Jul 2014
Westerhope was the name adopted by the Northern Allotment Society for their village in 1893, as this was to be ‘the hope of the west’. At the same time, neighbouring North Walbottle Colliery sank their shafts. They purchased part of the village to build miners’ houses and so it became a gardeners’ and miners’ village. The colliery closed in 1968, having employed 1300 men and produced 21.5 tons of coal. The village continues to develop and this mining wheel commemorates and celebrates the mining industry in the North East. The wheel came from Ellington Colliery, the last deep mine to close in the region, and was presented to the community on 2nd August 2008.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.995996
Longitude
-1.68251