Clargill Colliery Old Linger Pit Alston Cumbria. Field Study

The old Clargill colliery., also known as the Goodfellow Drift was worked by Bensons of Newcastle since the turn of the 20'th century till the 1930's and got the nick name of "Linger and Die" from the nearby Linger quarry. Record of a colliery in Clargill Cleugh go way way back into the 1700's where there was also a lead mine. The final closure of the colliery which was by that time situated a quarter of a mile to the NE was in 2001. A set of old Photographs are held by the Alston Historical society of a local colliery that is not names and it is part of this work to investigate if they are of the Clargill Colliery. Thanks to British Geological Survey, National Library of Scotland, Google Earth and British Mining for included items solely for educational and research purposes.