Newsham Colliery is shown at this site on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1865. Hannah Pit was sunk in 1860 to the Low Main seam, recorded as a depth of 99 fathoms (181m). The seam was worked until 1877 when extraction ceased and the mine was subsequently used as a ventilation shaft.

NEHL - Though short lived, Newsham Colliery did still impact the wider landscape of South Blyth. Firstly, it is illustrated on the map surveyed in 1858 as a fairly sizeable complex with two pit rows adjoining near Middle & Low Newsham farms. The farmland will certainly have been bought up by the Cowpen & North Seaton Coal Co from Sir Matthew Ridley who owned both farms. West Newsham, an old farmhouse west of the pit row, was formerly an agricultural building but was converted into tenements for pitmen.

There were at least 4 sidings leading to the pit itself, and one spurring off to the reservoir which was presumably used to pump out water from the mine and does still lie in situ.

The pit was surprisingly short lived and posed as a secondary ventilation shaft for the other Cowpen pits in the area. By the 1890s the branch was shortened though the colliery buildings, heap and pit rows remained, as did the Primitive Chapel and the Reading Room in the village. This has all been cleared, and there is subsequently little trace of the colliery.