Colliery memorial at Chopwell

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The photograph on this page of Colliery memorial at Chopwell by Trevor Littlewood as part of the Geograph project.

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Colliery memorial at Chopwell

Image: © Trevor Littlewood Taken: 20 Dec 2020

Disused colliery winding engine wheels are often seen displayed in this way in north-eastern pit villages as a tribute to their coal mining history. This one at Chopwell is a little different in that it's a monument to those miners recorded as having suffered accidental death between 1782 and 1966.

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54.918722
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-1.817753