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4 Parking

1 Reference point 5 S Start point

The walk 3 Site of Blackhall Colliery Station Welfare Park North S Parking is available at Blackhall Community members of the Veteran Bowls Club, their Centre on Hesleden Road. The Community wives and friends who died in a bus crash in 2 Pit Wheel 6 Blue House Gill Centre, originally built as the Miners Welfare 1969. The bus crashed on Crawleyside Bank, Hall has a community café which is open near Stanhope, on 14 August 1969 and 18 7 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday elderly people died along with the bus driver's serving food from 12noon. Opposite the 12-year-old daughter. The crash devastated the 1 Community Centre is St Andrews Church community of Blackhall and a memorial garden 11 built from red brick and known locally as the was created in Welfare Park. S Picnic area inside out church. The church was actually Leaving the Welfare Park cross the Coast Road 8 purchased second hand from Stockton at a turning right then left into Tenth Street. cost of £300, because the exterior was so 3 Continue down the street to the end bearing left dirty, it was rebuilt inside out at a cost of over the railway bridge. Follow the tarmac road Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel £6,000 and renamed St Andrews in 1930. for approximately 400m and turn right at the

Leaving the Community Centre we turn right public footpath sign (just before the road Site of Blackhall Rocks Station heading towards the Coast Road, passing the descends steeply). Pass the allotments towards library on the right. the sea and onto the England Coast Path, Pieronis Corner 10 1 The Coast Road (A1086) has a selection of where we turn right and continue walking south. 9 0½1km shops and some cafés. As we reach the 4 Most of the land to the right was the site of Coast Road the walk turns left and continues Blackhall Colliery. Coal waste was dumped past the shops to the Welfare Park. On the along this stretch of coastline by conveyor belt opposite side of the road we pass Blackhall making the beaches unrecognisable. The Methodist Church founded in 1928 and the pit beach at Blackhall was made famous by wheel, a lasting reminder of the coal mining Michael Caine in the closing shots of the film coast are Magnesian Limestone laid down in the Permian the original owner of the corner shop from the 1950’s heritage. The rows of numbered streets can be Get Carter. The beach and seas are returning period around 5 million years ago. The distinctive yellow/ I. Pieroni, who owned a café, grocers and ice cream shop seen behind the pit wheel and beyond. to their former glory after the impacts of heavy orange rock can be seen in all its glory at Blackhall Rocks. on this site. Turn right here and continue back along the 2 The Welfare Park was opened in 1929, and at industry along this stretch of coastline. 8 Blackhall Rocks picnic area and car park are owned and coast road. Along the way we pass St Joseph’s Catholic this time it was managed and funded by the 5 The grasslands here are some of the rarest in managed by Durham County Council’s Countryside Team. Church and the Aged Miner’s homes. A small weekly levy Miners Welfare Scheme. Following the the country. The Magnesian Limestone geology There are some excellent interpretation panels here which voluntarily donated from miners’ wages, plus donations of closure of Blackhall Colliery in 1981 and the supports an array of wild flowers and are well worth reading before heading on to the final stretch land and materials from mine owners and others, allowed subsequent demise of the mining industry, invertebrates, including orchids and the of the walk. On a clear day views of the North Yorkshire the aged miners homes to be constructed and let free of the Park was transferred to the ownership Northern Brown Argus butterfly. Skylarks can coast can be seen to the south and Tyneside to the north. charge. The vision and commitment of Joseph Hopper, a of Monk Hesleden Parish Council in 1989 be heard during the summer months as they 9 Leave the car park at Blackhall Rocks following the road miner and lay preacher, believed that a man who had where it is well maintained and used by local nest on the grasslands. out of the site heading away from the sea (Station Road). served in the coal mines all his life deserved better than to sports clubs. 6 Approaching Blue House Gill we turn inland for Heading under the railway line to the right are Station be evicted from his tied colliery home when he retired. As a A memorial stands in the Welfare Park in a short time before heading back towards the Cottages built for railway workers and their families. In the result, aged miners’ homes can be found in most colliery remembrance of those who died in conflict sea skirting the Gill. The Denes and Gills on the mid-19th century this area was a popular tourist villages. during the First and Second World coast were formed by retreating ice sheets destination with visitors often arriving by train to stay in a 11 The walk carries along the Coast Road past the Wars and the Korean War. during the last ice age. They are commonplace cliff top hotel (demolished 1970’s). The station here has Cooperative building which was built in the early part of There is another memorial along the coast and provide rare and valuable long since gone. 20 th century. Continue to the junction of Hesleden Road, in the park dedicated to habitats to a wide range of species. 10 At the top of Station Road we come, once again to the turn left here and continue back to the Community Centre. the memory of the 7 The rocks and caves that form the Durham Coast Road. This is known as Pieronis Corner, named after