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Colliery, Heaton red plaque

Newcastle upon Tyne, County Durham, England, United Kingdom

Heaton’s Last Colliery. The colliery on this site closed in the 1860s, ending almost 150 years when Heaton was at the technological forefront of world coalmining.

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