Image: F Pit Museum
Description: Washington F Pit Museum In the 18th/19th century, a series of coal pits were sunk in the area and lettered from A - J. F pit was sunk in 1777. By the 1960s F Pit employed 1500 men and was the UK's oldest working coalmine. F Pit was closed in 1968. The pit head and winding house was preserved as a small museum (open summer weekends only). Today it is in a park and surrounded by trees; it is difficult to imagine the working pit with its 200 ft high slagheap! More info: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/sunderland/fpit.php Historical info: http://www.washington.co.uk/eh.htm (halfway down the page)
Title: F Pit Museum
Credit: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Brian Abbott
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