Woodhorn Colliery Museum.



The Colliery Museum is situated in the Queen Elizabeth 11 Country Park in Northumberland. The park is also a venue for many events including the Miner's picnic and colliery bands.

A small exhibition celebrates some of Ashington's football heroes, including Bobby and Jack Charlton, Jimmy Adamson and "Wor Jackie" Milburn, a footballing legend and Woodhorn miner.



Woodhorn Colliery. (c) FreeFoto.com



This monument originally erected in Hirst Park, Ashington in 1923. It was moved to Woodhorn in 1991 and restored in 2002. It was erected by the Miners and Deputies trade union branches in the Ashington group, in memory of those who lost their lives in the Woodhorn Colliery explosion of August 13th. 1916.



Scanned from a sketch I bought at Woodhorn Museum.

Scanned from a sketch I bought at Woodhorn Museum.

Woodhorn Colliery

Winch Room at Woodhouse Museum.

Figure of a miner having a shower at Woodhorn Museum.

Figure of an old miner at Woodhorn Museum.

Woodhorn Museum web site.


Other photo's from Geordie friends.



A putter leading his pony

Men riding the pit shaft

Men working in a naked flame pit

Setting a wood prop, using a hammer

Canaries sometimes used to detect mine gases, I never saw one used underground in my time as a miner.

Belt loading into wagons.

Coal cars.

Deisel locomotive pulling coal wagons.

Some Pictures courtesy of Thomas Carr.

click here to email Thomas.

Map of Woodhorn Museum.



Map of Woodhorn Museum.



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