Weetslade Colliery, Pit Head Baths
Weetslade Colliery, Pit Head Baths
HER Number
5449
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Weetslade Colliery, Pit Head Baths
Place
Weetslade
Map Sheet
NZ27SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Mine Building
Site Type: Specific
Pithead Baths
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
20th Century 1901 to 2000
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Rare surviving example of a modern component of collieries in the north-east region. Although some examples are known as early as 1911, such facilities were routinely provided only after the establishment in 1926 of a fund for the purpose of building pit-head baths. The fund was founded with the intention of providing baths to all pits by 1945, though in fact only one third of all pits had been equipped in this way by the time of nationalisation. The Weetslade baths are one of only three examples known to survive locally. These may be the only such structures dating from the period 1930-60 to survive in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.
Easting
425980
Northing
572100
Grid Reference
NZ425980572100
Sources
<< HER 5449 >> The Archaeological Practice, 2000, Weetslade Colliery, Archaeological Assessment
1977, Northumberland Mining Records Survey, List of collieries in Northumberland, 1900-77, Northumberland Records Office
J.T. Tuck, 1993, The Collieries of Northumberland, Vol 1, p 44
19th century Map of collieries in Northumberland region, Northumberland Records Office, 438 G/7
20th century Map of the Northumberland Coalfield, Northumberland Records Office, 17
3rd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1920, Northumberland LXXXVI
5th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1951, 1:10,560 scale
7th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1958, 1:63,360 scale
6th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1962, 1:2,500 scale
7th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1976, 1:10,560 scale
Aerial Photograph, 1970, Ref. 69/344, no. 384
1991, Drawing of colliery site a decade after abandonment, SGS Drawing no. D202 Pl. 1 (7/9/91)
1977, Northumberland Mining Records Survey, List of collieries in Northumberland, 1900-77, Northumberland Records Office
J.T. Tuck, 1993, The Collieries of Northumberland, Vol 1, p 44
19th century Map of collieries in Northumberland region, Northumberland Records Office, 438 G/7
20th century Map of the Northumberland Coalfield, Northumberland Records Office, 17
3rd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1920, Northumberland LXXXVI
5th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1951, 1:10,560 scale
7th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1958, 1:63,360 scale
6th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1962, 1:2,500 scale
7th edition Ordnance Survey map, 1976, 1:10,560 scale
Aerial Photograph, 1970, Ref. 69/344, no. 384
1991, Drawing of colliery site a decade after abandonment, SGS Drawing no. D202 Pl. 1 (7/9/91)