Heaton Banks Colliery and Steam Pumping Engines, Heaton Banks Colliery red plaque

This red commemorative plaque records: 18th Century Steam Pumping Engines. Three Newcomen pumping engines drained Heaton Banks Colliery in the early 1700s. Part of the greatest concentration of steam power in the world at the time. Recorded plaque organisation: Heaton History Group, Heritage Lottery Fund.

Heaton Banks Colliery's three Newcomen steam pumping engines, operational in the early 1700s, were crucial for draining the mine and represented part of the most extensive steam-powered industrial complex of their era.