Tows Bank Colliery

Tippler at the coal processing area, Tows Bank Colliery, Northumberland, 1996. This colliery was opened in 1986 and worked the Little Limestone coal which was often in a seam of only 9 inches thickness and which rarely exceeded 12 inches. The pit closed temporarily several times after 1994 and finally closed for good in the late 1990s.