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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 456 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Thomas Harrison Hair

Covering Dates: 1828-1842

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  • Photocopies and photographs
    • Thomas Harrison Hair (Ref: D/Ph 456)
    • Ink drawings of collieries, keelmen, staithes and coal drops (Ref: D/Ph 456)
    • County Durham (Ref: D/Ph 456)
    • Northumberland (Ref: D/Ph 456)

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Thomas Harrison Hair (Ref: D/Ph 456)

Thomas Harrison Hair was born c.1910 and produced a series of ink drawings and watercolours of collieries in Northumberland and Durham between 1828 and 1842. In 1839 he published the drawings in his 'Sketches of the Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham'. This was revised in 1844.

Ink drawings of collieries, keelmen, staithes and coal drops (Ref: D/Ph 456)County Durham (Ref: D/Ph 456)Ref: D/Ph 456/1/1

Letch Pit, Lamesley, Marquis of Londonderry, showing pit head, n.d. [1828-42] Pit sunk 1824
(1 paper, 52 cm x 42 cm)

Ref: D/Ph 456/1/2

Port Clarence, showing staithes and coal drops, 1841
(1 paper, 52 cm x 42 cm)

Ref: D/Ph 456/1/3

Whitworth Park Colliery, showing pit head, horses and coal wagons, waste being dropped onto pit heap, n.d. [1839-42] Pit sunk 1839
(1 paper, 52 cm x 42 cm)

Northumberland (Ref: D/Ph 456)Ref: D/Ph 456/1/4

North Shields, colliers loading from keels, showing lighthouse, n.d. [1828 - 1842]
(1 paper, 52 cm x 42 cm)

Ref: D/Ph 456/1/5

Wallsend Colliery, showing pit head, coal wagons, pitmen with shovels, n.d. [1828 - 1842]
(1 paper, 52 cm x 42 cm)



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