1360 |  | To 1800s, earliest coal mining, local family mines. |
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1801 | | Coundon village population 163 |
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1836 | | Leasingthorne Colliery opened |
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1840s | | 138 houses for miners built at Tottenham and Canney Hill by coal owners |
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1841 | | Population 1,265
St James' Church School opened |
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1842 | | Church of St James opened
The 'Ten Foot' Pit opened |
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1844 | | Wesleyan Methodist Church opened |
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1845-
1870 | | Influx of miners from Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland. |
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1852 | | Wood -framed housing constructed at Leasingthorne |
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1861 | | Methodist New Connexion Chapel opened |
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1863 | | Primitive Methodist Chapel opened |
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1870 | | Bolckow Vaughan Colliery owners built Leeholme superior miners' housing, using the names of counties such as Lincoln, Sussex, Windsor, Sussex |
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1881 | | Population 3,510 |
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1900s | | Stone quarrying finishes |
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1904 | | St Joseph's Roman Catholic School built |
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1911 | | Population 6,912 |
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1914 | | Leasingthorne workforce 1,651 |
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1929 | | Dorman Long own the colliery |
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1930 | | Council School built, replacing the Church School for juniors |
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1934 | | St Joseph's Roman Catholic church built |
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1939 | | 95 businesses operating in Coundon and Leasingthorne, excluding farmers, coalmen, milkmen |
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1947 | | Collieries vested in National Coal Board. Leasingthorne colliery produces 184,508 tons. The pit head baths were built after vesting date |
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1967 | | Leasingthorne Colliery closed. Part of the workforce travelled to pits on the north-east coast, others moved to Yorkshire, Nottingham and Staffordshire pits. |
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1971 | | Ward boundary changes, population now 4,132 |
