The landmark pit wheel monument at the Apedale Park stands proudly on the high hill above the site of the former colliery.
This country park (near Newcastle) supports not just the open space of the countryside it now encompasses, but the Apedale Heritage Centre, with its collection of historic mining artefacts.
This country park (near Newcastle) supports not just the open space of the countryside it now encompasses, but the Apedale Heritage Centre, with its collection of historic mining artefacts.
It’s worth a walk up there. It’s a bleak landscape, but that only serves to remind one of how tough the mining life must have been back then.
