Skip to main content
Skip to secondary menu
Skip to primary sidebar

Wheatley Hill History Club

Durham

Home
World War 1
Our Village
Photographs and Videos
Articles
Our Club
Meetings and Newsletters
- 2025 Meetings
- Newsletters

Photographs

Photograph Albums »
The Colliery »
Colliery workers

Wheatley Hill Colliery c1890. Sinkers: Middle of back row - George Armstrong

Wheatley Hill Colliery Shaftsmen. Left: Mr Henderson. Right: Mr McKeand

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1920s. Jack Kelsey (left) and ? outside lamp cabin

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1920s. Back L-R: ?, Mr Henderson, Mr McKeand? Front L-R: ?, Mr Thornton, Mr Wilson, Mr Gair, ?

Wheatley Hill Colliery. Back 2nd Left - Jonty Raffell

Wheatley Hill Miners.

Wheatley Hill Miners.

Wheatley Hill Miners.

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1926 Strike. Canteen Staff, Temperance Hall. Includes Jack Kelsey (far right standing), sister Dora at left of board and mother at right of board.

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1926 Strike. Canteen Staff, Temperance Hall.

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1940s. Bob Rowlands and Joe Clarke

Wheatley Hill Colliery Canteen staff. L-R: Mary Poulson, Kitty Nicholson, Popsy Richardson, Mary Dunn,Doreen Sayers, Hazel Richardson, Joan Poulson

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1947. Back L-R: Billy Gibson, Bobby Trisnan; Middle L-R: Frankie Horner, Benny Nicholson, Freddie Hutchinson;Front: Gordon Patterson. Ronnie Dinsley.

Wheatley Hill Colliery. Back L-R: Benny Nicholson, Percy Wynn, Bobby Jordan, Harold Simpson, Tommy Nicholson, Bob Simpson; Front L-R: Wilf Goyns, Kenny Wynn, Terry Cullen, John Davies.

Wheatley Hill Colliery Fitters 1947. Back L-R: Gordon Carr, Walter English, Billy Gibson; Front L-R: Ronnie Dinsley, Billy Potts, Ronnie Scott

Wheatley Hill Colliery. L-R: Benny Nicholson, Walter English, Albert Freeman, Bobby Trisnan, Gordon Carr, Billy Gibson, Ronnie Scott

Wheatley Hill Colliery. L-R: Ronnie Scott, Gordon Carr, Ronnie Dinsley, Bobby Trisnan, Billy Gibson, Walter English

Wheatley Hill Colliery. Back L-R: Ronnie Brown, Frankie Horner, Freddie Hutchinson, Joe Brown, Stan Thompson, Norman Gordon, Billy Ruth, Ronnie Dinsley.

Wheatley Hill Colliery. 1947 Vesting Day. Councillor E Cain in centre of image

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1948. Canteen workers - Gladys Peacock and Dorothy Burrell

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1950s. L-R: J Davis, Gordon Smith, M Brown, George Reay, Jimmy Gibson, Jackie Dunn, S Kelly

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1950s. L-R: Bob Rowlands, Joe Clarke, ?, ?

Wheatley Hill Colliery 1950s. L-R: Jackie Wright, J Ellward, Jimmy Gibson, George Reay, Jackie Kiers, W Jones

Tot Davies, 1963.

Primary Sidebar

Search the site ...

Why not subscribe to our youTube Channel

Next Meeting

25 June 2025
A Splendid Rogue: The Life & Times of Harry Benson, Master Criminal – Tony Nicholson

All meetings are held in Wheatley House 11:00am – Noon, Entrance is £3 which includes raffle and refreshments, Membership not essential – everyone welcome

Latest Newsletter

April 2025

Recent Articles

Next Meeting – June
HERITAGE LOTTERY GRANT AWARD
We now have a YouTube Channel and Video Memories Page
Back from the Dead at Gallipoli: William Wilson of Wheatley Hill
Remembering the Winding Engines

Tags

church CoalMining Cycling housing memoirs Pit rememberance-sunday thornley-parish-magazine Village World War 1

Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Copyright © 2025 Wheatley Hill History Club · Designed by Graham Robinson Software