"The North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., are also working the royalties in this township [Brandon and Byshottles], at their Littleburn Colliery, where three shafts are engaged, two for drawing coals, and one for pumping and upcast. At the Boyne pits there are two shafts used for ventilating purposes."

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham via Durham Mining Museum

NEHL - Littleburn Colliery was a fairly extensive complex featuring a brick works, two shafts and a large number of coke ovens in the 1890s. There were 3 lines of terraces just north named Princes St and Railway St, as well as a public house named the Colliery Inn. It was directly connected to the East Coast Main Line.

Its adjacent mining settlement became a Category D village in 1951, just one year after the pit closing which was ultimately the hammer strike. Though the terraces did end up remaining through the 1960s, the settlement eventually succumbed to demolition and a warehouse built in its place. This is a similar story to many Category D's - Newburn Bridge End and Hobson are reminiscent. In respects of the colliery itself, its boundary is still recognisable but is now entirely light industry.