Generations of families worked down the North East’s pits – it was the industry on which the region’s prosperity was built. In 1913, the year of peak production, 165,246 men and boys worked in Durham’s 304 mines. The 1855-built steam winding engine house is the sole survivor of a type once common in the Northern Coalfield. (Information gathered at Beamish Museum)

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