Fishburn Colliery

07/03/2022

Who remembers the Jolly Boys? I memory sent in by Joe Forbes, A day out to Blackpool for the jolly boys left to right John Forbes, Mr. Emerson ,Mr Hodgeon, Dodworth,?, and Monty Vincent. all miners at Fishburn colliery .

13/12/2021

Dave Grierson, at Fishburn Coke Works during demolition, circa 1988.

25/02/2021

Fishburn Colliery and surrounding areas

25/02/2021

25/02/2021

George Wright on the left

19/01/2020

Who remembers the Pit Pony?

05/12/2019

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

06/09/2019

Originally broadcast 12 January 1972 This film depicts various scenes, interviews and references to the Durham coal mines and lives of the miners and their f...

23/08/2019

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.