Twilight Talks - From fried fish shops to Methodist chapels:  Easington Colliery 1910-1924

Archivist Andrew Gray explores the development of Easington Colliery through the records of the Church Commissioners, the landowners who oversaw much of the village’s development. These archives offer a vivid picture of a community finding its feet, charting everything from planning new facilities and amenities to the everyday negotiations that accompanied a rapidly expanding colliery village. They reveal how services, shops, chapels and welfare spaces emerged and evolved in response to local needs, painting a rich portrait of a place growing in pace with its industry.