Hope-Dodds's 1930 Northumberland County History never uses the name 'Heaton Banks,' and its own Heaton narrative contradicts an 1745 closure, dating the colliery's actual end to 1852

Newcastle City Council's Historic Environment Record dates Heaton Banks colliery's closure to 1745 (see claim-heaton-banks-colliery-closed-1745-no-gauge-recorded), citing Les Turnbull's 2009 Coals from Newcastle and M. Hope Dodds's 1930 Northumberland County History Vol. 13 without quoting either. A direct, full-text read of Hope Dodds's volume — its complete "Collieries and the Coal Trade" chapter and its own alphabetical index — finds that the name "Heaton Banks" appears nowhere in the book; the colliery is discussed throughout simply as "Heaton." The chapter (contributed by T. E. Forster, per the volume's own preface, not written by Hope Dodds herself) describes 1745 as a water crisis answered by sinking new workings, not a closure: a fourth pumping engine needed, "a new winning required... The new pits reached the coal and continued to work it." The narrative continues past Heaton's 1815 flooding — which also did not close it — to its actual end: "The High Main pillars were exhausted by 1851 and, after a futile exploration of the Low Main, the collieries were given up in 1852," 107 years after the HER's cited date. The 1745 report's own footnote traces to a still older secondary source, Hair's Views of the Collieries (1844), unread this session (see entity-hairs-views-of-the-collieries-1844).

This does not by itself refute the HER's 1745 date: Hope Dodds/Forster's "Heaton" may telescope operations that Turnbull's later terminology splits into a "Heaton Banks" that closed in 1745 and a distinct "Heaton Main" that opened in 1792 (see claim-second-her-record-independently-dates-heaton-banks-1745-different-sources). But the one named primary this session could read directly does not confirm the date, and read plainly, argues against it. See question-verify-heaton-banks-colliery-1745-closure-date.