Townley Main Colliery (Emma Colliery)

HER Number

3314

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Townley Main Colliery (Emma Colliery)

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Townley Main Colliery was served by the Townley Main Wagonway, (SMR 3317), which linked to it. The 1st edition OS mapping shows the Emma Pit, a gasometer and smithy in the complex. Opened 1845 and closed April 1968. Owned by the Stella Coal Co in the 1850s, and from 1947 the National Coal Board. Whellan reported that in 1894 the colliery produced 550 tons of coal per day.

Easting

414380

Northing

563900

Grid Reference

NZ414380563900

Sources

<< HER 3314 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 1; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk