IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Whinway, WASHINGTON, NE37 1AU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Whinway, NE37 1AU by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (10 Images Found)
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Washington F Pit Museum
In the 18th/19th century, a series of coal pits were sunk in the area and lettered from A - J. F pit was sunk in 1777. By the 1960s F Pit employed 1500 men and was the UK's oldest working coalmine.
F Pit was closed in 1968. The pit head and winding house was preserved as a small museum (open summer weekends only). Today it is in a park and surrounded by trees; it is difficult to imagine the working pit with its 200 ft high slagheap!
More info: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland/fpit.php
Historical info: http://www.washington.co.uk/eh.htm (halfway down the page)
Image: © Brian Abbott
Taken: 19 May 2006
0.22 miles
6
Washington F Pit
Replicates an earlier subject but from the opposite side and less obscured.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 14 Oct 1990
0.23 miles
8
Washington F Pit - steam winding engine
Preserved and open a few days per year. Motor driven and surrounded by quite unfriendly guards.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 26 Jul 1983
0.24 miles
9
Nicholsons Garage , Blue House Lane
Image: © gordon james brown
Taken: 26 Jun 2011
0.25 miles
10
Washington F Pit Museum - steam winding engine
Horizontal duplex winding engine built in 1888 by the Grange Iron Company and later fitted with 1903 patent expansion gear on the Cornish drop valves.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Sep 2024
0.25 miles