Winlaton, Powder Magazine

Very well preserved powder magazine at Blaydon Burn Colliery, Mary Drift. Built of Cowen bricks to an interesting design. It comprises a small brick built store with two doorways (originally iron doors), internal cross wall and concrete roof. Built before 1919 to serve Mary coal drift which can be seen as a depression to the east. It was disused by 1953. Surviving colliery powder stores are rare nationally.