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Woodhorn Colliery: The Working Pit
Woodhorn Colliery was the third pit sunk by the Ashington Coal Company. Work on the first shaft began on 16th May
1894 and production started in February 1898. A second shaft was added at the turn of the century and began drawing
coal in 1901.
Above ground, the colliery was laid out in a largely standard manner for this period and region - it had winders for
the shafts, blacksmiths' and joiners shops, fan house, various workshops, stables, a pond, boilers, spoil heap,
magazine and a railway link.
Underground, coal was extracted by a method called longwall working, or total extraction. This extended outwards
from the two shafts following the coal seams. This cutaway reconstruction is based on old maps, photographs and a
plan of underground workings made in about 1948.
Look at an original plan of the underground workings or return to the
Woodhorn Colliery home page.
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