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  Backworth Colliery   Backworth Colliery  

Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines for Backworth Colliery

Srce
Year		   Plan
No.		   Date
Received		    
1934          LONGBENTON; Bigge; Hope; Ling; Prosperous; Quarry; Ridge; Swellt; Wake
 
Parishes: Longbenton; Wallsend. COAL: Seam unnamed. Plans held at: W. Armstrong and Sons, Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
 
1934          BURRADON; KILLINGWORTH; BACKWORTH AND EARSDON
 
Parishes: Longbenton; North Gosforth; Holywell; Backworth; Weetslade; Wallsend; Tynemouth; Murton; Earsdon. COAL: High Main. Plans held at: W. Armstrong and Sons, Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
 
1934          BACKWORTH; EARSDON AND HOLYWELL; Church; Grange
 
Parishes: Backworth; Earsdon; Holywell; Longbenton. COAL: High Main (1851), Low Main, Metal, Yard (about 1878). Plans held at: W. Armstrong and Sons, Collingwood Buildings, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
 
1934          BACKWORTH; EARSDON AND HOLYWELL
 
Plans held at: Plans formerly held by A. Mundle and Son are now held by the Mines Department.
 
1915       1915    Backworth, "Blue Bell"
 
Parish: Earsdon. COAL: Main, Yard.
 
1933    11,088    1933    BACKWORTH; A; B; C; D; Eccles; Low Steads; Maude
 
Parishes: Backworth; Holywell; Ear sdon; Longbenton. COAL: Low Main. (Abandoned: 18 Jul 1933).
 
1934    11,266    1934    BACKWORTH; A; B; C; D; Eccles; Low Steads; Maude
 
Parishes: Backworth; Holywell; Earsdon; Longbenton. COAL: Bensham. (Abandoned: 22 Jul 1934).
 
1934    11,321    1934    KILLINGWORTH; A; B; C; D; E; Apple; Bent; Benton; Bigge; Burrdadon; Choice; Delight; Dyke; Edge; First; Flat; Green; Hill; Hope; John; Lane; Ling; Lough; Plumb; Prosperous; Quarry; Quince; Ridge; Second; Swelly; Third; Wake; Whin
 
Parishes: Longbenton; Wallsend; Newcastle-on-Tyne. COAL: High Main (1826).
 
1935    11,409    1935    BACKWORTH; Church or Earsdon Church or Dicky
 
Parishes: Earsdon; Holywell; Seaton Delaval; Whitley & Monkseaton. COAL: Main or Metal, Yard, Bensham, Low Main, Five Quarter. (Abandoned: 22 Jun 1934).
 

The plans of abandoned mines are held by the Coal Authority (http://www.coal.gov.uk/) at the following address: The Coal Authority, 200 Lichfield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4RG

Sources:

  • 1915 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1933 Supplement to the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines (41-44-15-33), published May, 1934
  • 1934 Supplement to the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines (41-44-15-34), published April, 1935
  • 1935 Supplement to the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines, published May, 1936

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