Vane Tempest Colliey .....Select a picture to enlarge

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Detail from previous picture.

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Looking east, Seaham Railway Station just off frame bottom right, Derwent Close in foreground, Deneway behind. Main roan is Dene House road, known for a hundred years as Lovers Lane before housing built. Vane Tempest Colliery top left. Photograph 1980.

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Sinking the Vane Tempest Colliery began in 1924, photograph of the drilling towers probably 1925.

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The colliery closes as the last shift rides to bank at the Vane Tempest on 23/10/1992

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Vane Tempest from the north in 1954, North Pier visible in the distance.

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