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Old 12-08-2015, 09:32 PM
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I've just come across a name I hadn't heard before, relating to a pit at Shilbottle and called "Lansdale Colliery". It seems to be the one referred to in the John Green article above but he calls it Blue Lodge.
Durham County Advertiser, 23 Dec 1815:
"LANSDALE COLLIERY,
To be let, for a term of 21 years, and entered upon January 1st 1817,
The old established current going colliery of Shilbottle, in the count of Northumberland, with a farm containing about 100 acres appended.
The mine is of most excellent quality, and the vend very considerable, the colliery being distant only three miles from Alnwick, and connected therewith by means of a cast iron waggon way.
The colliery may be viewed, and a plan of the workings seen, by applying to the overmen upon the premises; and Mr Tate of Bank-House will show the lands......"
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