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The Colliery Inn was situated on Lynn Terrace. This pub was previously known as Moon's Hotel and is now used as a guest house.
Source: Ronnie Chambers
1874 1st June – Hartlepool Coal Company in an attempt to frighten men back to work – decided to evict the strikers from their homes. The local paper reported the following events under the headlines “Police and Candymen brought into evict strikers”. On Monday June 1st, a special early morning train drew into the little N.E.R. Station and unloaded more than a hundred passengers half of them were a motley, rough looking crew, the rest were policemen in smart blue uniforms. The former were ‘Candymen’ the riff-raff from the stews and lodging houses of Bottle Bank, Gateshead. They had been enlisted to carry out the dirty work of evicting the striking miners. The Candymen were marched to Moon’s Hotel where they were breakfasted and plied with drink.
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