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Backworth Welfare Hall

 

 

Backworth Hall was the welfare and recreational centre for the whole of the Backworth coal-mining district, which had over 3000 employees. The miners used to pay sixpence out of their wages to the Social Fund to keep the place going.

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Uploaded on August 19, 2013
Taken on August 12, 2013