Chopwell Colliery Wheel
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chopwell Colliery Wheel by Oliver Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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Chopwell Colliery Wheel
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 21 Mar 2019
Like many of the former coalmining villages in the North-East, a winding wheel commemorates the local colliery. The stone to the left dates the colliery from 1896, but on the wheel itself is a plaque listing about 70 known fatalities from 1782 (presumably including those from an older colliery on the same site). Mining ceased in 1966.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.918722
Longitude
-1.817597