Brief timeline of the site..
Currently used as a container storage area.
Not many photos as there isn't that much to see, interior photos upon the next trip though
Cheers
1868 - Wardley No.1 Colliery opens.
1911 - Colliery closes.
1938 - Wardley No.1 Colliery reopens.
1947 - Colliery nationalised.
1959 - Merged with Follonsby Colliery.
1969 - Merged with Usworth Colliery.
1974 - Site closes.
1989 - Reopened as 'Wardley Disposal Point', to replace Swallwell Disposal Point which was to be used as the site of the Metro Centre.
1995 - Passed on to RJB Mining.
2005 - Site mothballed.
Currently used as a container storage area.
Not many photos as there isn't that much to see, interior photos upon the next trip though
Cheers