[/caption]USHAW Moor’s original colliery village overlooked the actual colliery about three-quarters of a mile to the west of the present village and was the scene of a troublesome strike in the 1880s.
The colliery owner, Henry Chaytor, of Witton Castle, was an uncompromising master.
Sanitary conditions in his terraces were appalling and wooden huts housing additional miners were described as “the most wretched dwellings it was possible to conceive”.
Conditions in Chaytor’s mine were no better, and men complained of working in 18 inches of water.
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