Bank Top (Plashetts Colliery)
Location type
MineName and dates
Bank Top (Plashetts Colliery) (1889-1932)Description
Bank Top was a small mining village a short way east from the head of the Slater's Incline. The village was not built with the Plashetts Colliery Waggonway but dates from around 1890 when the original Seldom Seen Pit (Plashetts Colliery) was worked out and two new mines were sunk by the Plashetts Coal Company (later the Plashetts Coal and Coke Company).
The village consisted of miners' rows on either side of the single track waggonway and a Methodist Church. A school was added later.
Far Colliery village dates from the same period, an expansion of a single older row.
The colliery closed around 1932 with the death of Joseph Slater. The land was bought from the Duke of Northumberland by the Forestry Commission in 1932 and the village became ruinous. Parts of low parts of the buildings remain.
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Colliery mine pit villageExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
11/11/2018
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