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Woodhorn Colliery: Organisation of the Mining Industry
Before nationalisation in 1947, the coal industry was owned and operated by private companies - a situation that was
to return in the 1980s when the coal industry was renationalised.
In Northumberland, the Ashington Coal Company was dominant. It was one of the largest and most prosperous companies
in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Woodhorn Colliery was one of five pits in south-east Northumberland owned and operated by the Ashington Coal Company.
The first and largest pit was Ashington Colliery, which opened in 1867. The other three were Linton, Ellington and
Lynemouth. The five collieries, as they became known, were the main sources of employment in the area throughout the
first half of the twentieth century. Today, Ellington is the only deep mine left in Northumberland.
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