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Originally Posted by Vagabond
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Vagabond, I always find the Eglingham entry in the Durham Mining Museum very frustrating. There is obviously a serious lack of info. I've been trying to join up the dots a bit, using the census and newspaper articles. It looks to me like Tarry Colliery which went up for sale in 1872 was rebranded and re-launched in 1877, under the grand name of the Eglingham Coal and Lime Company. Fireworks and everything
A new lime kiln had been built and the re-launch involved the official lighting of the kiln.
Interesting too that the parish of Eglingham was known as the parish of Coal Eglingham, at least for a few years, in the 1800s.