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Heaton Banks Colliery and Steam Pumping Engines, Heaton Banks Colliery red plaque

Newcastle upon Tyne, County Durham, England, United Kingdom

Heaton Banks Colliery and Steam Pumping Engines, Heaton Banks Colliery red plaque

18th Century Steam Pumping Engines. Three Newcomen pumping engines drained Heaton Banks Colliery in the early 1700s. Part of the greatest concentration of steam power in the world at the time.

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