Situation: Newcastle	Owner: New Hem Heath Mining Co
Address:	Newcastle, Staffs.
Manager:	Chas. Maynard
Under Manager:
Workers:	Under ground:  86 Surface:   30
Minerals worked:	Ironstone
Seams worked:	Half Yard, Red Shag, Red Mine
Remarks:

From: report by  W. N. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector for North Staffordshire - 1896.
List of Mines worked under the Coal Mines Regulation Act,
in North Staffordshire, during the Year 1896

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"When the gigantic Hem Heath Colliery A frame was demolished on August 19, 1997, it was as if King Coal in the Potteries had had his legs finally blown from under him." The Hem Heath pit ceased production in 1996, and when Silverdale Colliery closed two years later in December 1998, it meant the end of deep-mining in North Staffordshire.

 

 

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