Locations of Mines around West Auckland

Posted by John Patterson on 11/11/2004, 8:36 pm
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My father and uncle used to talk of "Brocken Back". Probably "Broken Back Colliery which, if I remember correctly their "crack" was on the Warner site at St Helens. They were born and brought up in Dent Street at Tindale so they would have known. St Helens colliery is shown on your map on the opposite side of the road. Was "Brocken Back" a slang name for St Helens Colliery or was it different? The Durham County Mining Museum web-site hasn't this information.

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