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    1°23′18″W / 54.91444°N 1.38833°W / 54.91444; -1.38833 Monkwearmouth Colliery (or Wearmouth Colliery) was a major North Sea coal mine located on the north...
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    Monkwearmouth is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. Monkwearmouth is located at the north side of the mouth of the River Wear. It was one...
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    reflect the coal mining heritage of the North East and the former Monkwearmouth Colliery site on which it stands. A Davy lamp monument stands at the entrance...
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  • history, and the land the Stadium of Light was built on, formerly the Monkwearmouth Colliery. The crest also contains two lions, the black cats of Sunderland...
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    known as pits) that were created in the Northeast's Monkwearmouth Colliery (or Wearmouth Colliery) was a large deep pit that went out under the North...
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    spell in the third tier of English football. Redevelopment of the Monkwearmouth Colliery site, which sits on the north bank of the river Wear opposite the...
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  • attention to the former Monkwearmouth colliery site on the banks of the River Wear, which became available with the colliery's closure in December 1993...
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    Sunderland moved to the Stadium of Light, in nearby Monkwearmouth, on the site of the closed Monkwearmouth Colliery. The 1996–97 season was the last at Roker Park...
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    building at Sunderland Docks and coal mining with large collieries such as Monkwearmouth Colliery, which declined rapidly during the mid 20th century, many...
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    Sunderland's Stadium of Light, which is built on the former site of the Monkwearmouth Colliery, as a symbol of its anger over the appointment. The background to...
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  • Kingdom Bishopwearmouth Monkwearmouth Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (the Monkwearmouth part) Wearmouth Bridge Wearmouth Colliery Ronnie Wearmouth, Australian...
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  • 1960s, winning the Wearside Football League on four occasions, the Monkwearmouth Charity Cup twice as well as the Sunderland Shipowners Cup and League...
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    Borough of Sunderland wards of Bridge, Central, Colliery, Deptford, Fulwell, Monkwearmouth, Monkwearmouth Shore, Roker, and Southwick. The County Borough...
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    scattered across 6 miles (10 km) of Gateshead and environs. Miners in Monkwearmouth colliery, the deepest in the country and 11 miles (18 km) away, heard the...
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  • Easington Colliery Association Football Club is a football club based in Easington Colliery, County Durham, England. They are currently members of the...
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    the bottom of Summit Gully on December 14. The last shift left Monkwearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The closure of the 158-year-old...
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  • Allen Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes". Last shift at Monkwearmouth Colliery, ending coal mining in the Durham Coalfield after at least 700 years...
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    Monkwearmouth Railway Station is a former station that served Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, England, from 1848 to 1967. It was built in 1848 to a design...
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    Brandling Junction Railway between Oakwellgate (Gateshead) and Wearmouth (Monkwearmouth) on 5 September 1839 and the Stockton & Hartlepool Railway between the...
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  • in the league. The league also operates three cup competitions: the Monkwearmouth Charity Cup and the Shipowners' Charity Cup, both of which have been...
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    Oaks explosion (redirect from Oaks colliery)
    caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers...
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  • As of November 2016, work is yet to begin. Redevelopment of the Monkwearmouth Colliery site, which sits on the north bank of the river Wear opposite the...
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  • racism. His last notable case was in 1869 involving the miners at Monkwearmouth Colliery where he finally managed to abolish the Bill. In 1871 he published...
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  • Monkwearmouth Cup. In the first season at Recreation Park Murton won the Wearside League and the Monkwearmouth Cup. They again won the Monkwearmouth Cup...
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    newly founded Jarrow monastery. He had started his monastic career at Monkwearmouth monastery and later wrote that he was "ácenned on sundorlande þæs ylcan...
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  • Hill, Marden, Marsden, Melton Park, Millfield, Monkseaton, Monkton, Monkwearmouth, Moorside, Murton Village, Montagu Estate, Manor Park Newbottle, Newburn...
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    Seahampton's origins are in coal mining. Seaham No. 1 Colliery was opened here on 6 March 1890 by the Monkwearmouth Coal Company which was reformed and renamed...
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  • was educated at the Redby Infant and Junior Schools on Fulwell Road, Monkwearmouth Grammar School (five years above Hilary Armstrong) and latterly at Durham...
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  • of William Hill, a coal miner, and his wife Ann. He was born in the Monkwearmouth area of Sunderland, which was then in County Durham. He played football...
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  • winning the Wearside League in 1911–12, 1912–13, and 1913–14, and the Monkwearmouth Charity Cup in 1912–13 and 1922–23. On a national scale, the club reached...
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