COAL

Early Tyneside Industrialism: the lower Derwent and Blaydon Burn Valleys 1550-1700 by Eric Clavering and Alan Rounding

John Thomas William Bell's Maps of the Great Northern Coalfield.

The Mining Institute in Newcastle - fantastic fascinating place, free to visit!

PDF about their exciting new plans.  Contains a brief illustrated history of mining in the north-east 

Stargate Pit Disaster 1826 - an account by Ryton Local Historian Geoff Nicholson

Durham Coal Mining

West Stanley Pit Disaster

Victoria Garesfield - miners' memories

Women of the Northern Coalfield - exhibition at Bishop Auckland

Digital Voice film - oral history about Blaydon & Winlaton Coal-Mining