Easington Colliery Brass Band Everyone who was involved ... possible pit closure and so many pits around the country being closed. One of the rumblings was that Easington would be closed because ...

Twenty years ago, the pit at Easington Colliery, County Durham, closed, and on Wednesday former miners will hold a commemoration party to mark the anniversary. The pit brass band will play.

Access to the beach at Easington Colliery has been closed and the steps blocked off with a barrier. It comes as temperatures in the North East have been rising, causing last week’s snow and ice ...

People in Easington Colliery, though, talk instead about the ... He told me: It was our greatest fear when the pits closed that areas of deprivation would set in - and all our worst fears have ...

Thirty years after the colliery closed, Easington Welfare Centre - or "The Welly" - still has regular events, such as dance groups, bingo and pool. It offered support to local residents in the ...

Easington Colliery closed on 7 May 1993. Grass covers the history. Pitmen faced injury, lung disease or death - 83 died in the Easington Pit Disaster of 1951 - and many hoped for something else ...

Easington Colliery eventually closed on 7 May 1993, with hundreds of jobs lost. Forty years on from the miners' strike, the pit site has since become a park, but the legacy lingers.

Easington is the end of the road ... pulled out as soon as the colliery closed, and the Post Office has gone; a notorious area of the village has been abandoned to junkies and problem families ...

The brass band, comprised of musicians from Stockton-on-Tees and Seaham, appeared on the track ‘Remember My Name’, which was inspired by the relationship between Fender’s grandparents. In an ...