After leaving the Alexandrina site (Time Team would have a field day in there) we walked a short distance West along the former Sunderland-Durham Line (closed before 1960 pre Beeching) The line although not related to this Colliery was used for transport of goods/Coal, it was originally used by rope of which this is the remains, lots of stone work and possible well or even a shaft with stone slab covering it. Sometimes the Alexandrina Pit was known as the Letch? though old maps show this not to have been a mine?
This photograph is by lyons and was uploaded March 5th 2014. © lyons please do not copy or distribute without prior express permission.
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