Metal Bridge Drift Mine

04/09/2020

Another photo from the last shift at Metal Bridge

25/05/2020

A Collection of memories related to metal Bridge Drift Mine

19/01/2020

Who remembers the Pit Pony?

05/12/2019

Take a trip back to the past, what do you remember?

12/09/2019

We now have our unique URL web address, this makes it easy to mention and link to this page similar to a


It's now easier for people to find this Page in search. People can also visit this Page at fb.me/MetalBridgeDriftMine and send messages to the Page at m.me/MetalBridgeDriftMine.

Keeping the memory of this Drift alive.

Metal Bridge Drift Mine, Tursdale, Co Durham

08/09/2019

Mines and Collieries of the Durham Coalfield The Prince of Wales visited Mr. Lyndsay & his family. His daughter then aged three can be seen in the gateway, t...

22/08/2019

Easington Colliery Disaster news clip shown in the cinima before TV

19/08/2019

Has everyone seen this?

This candid, observational Tyne Tees TV news feature powerfully communicates the raw experience of a pitmans shift at Dawdon Colliery in 1967 the heat, dirt, cramped tunnels and deafening noise of coal-cutting machines and conveyors. Without commentary, this film recalls a vanished era of courage and camaraderie for the miners working in hellish conditions two miles out and 1,000 feet below the North Sea, off the Durham coastline.

Grit, grime and graft fathoms beneath the North Sea for coal miners at Dawdon Colliery.