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English: 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)
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Camera location54° 54′ 34.22″ N, 1° 31′ 49.78″ W  Heading=202° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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19 May 2006

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01:00, 10 August 2009Thumbnail for version as of 01:00, 10 August 2009640 × 480 (18 KB)AJCham{{Information |Description= The 'F' Pit Museum in Albany, Washington, Tyne and Wear, UK.<br /> A former functioning colliery. |Source= http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/172014 |Date= 19 May, 2006 |Author= [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/5696 Brian Abbo

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