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Brandon Pit House Colliery
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| Location: | Brandon 4 miles [6 km] WSW of Durham |
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| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ215404, 54° 45' 29" N, 1° 39' 57" W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maps: |  1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
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| Opened: | 1836 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed: | 15 Mar 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pits: | Shaft details for Brandon Pit House Colliery |
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| Owners: | 1920's - Strakers & Love Ltd. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Output: | 1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. Fireclay. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947 - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (300,000 tons) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1950 - Coal: Coking, Household. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955 - Coal: Coking, Household. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 - Coal: Coking, Household. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 - Coal: Coking, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NCB Employment Figures
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| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: | 1930 - Busty, Five Quarter, Hutton, Main | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1950 - "B", Ballarat, Busty, Hutton, Main, Three Quarter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955 - Ballarat, Busty, Hutton, Main, Three Quarter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 - Harvey, Three Quarter, Tilley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 - Harvey, Tilley, Top Three Quarter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Brandon Pit House Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1950 - Main seam abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Abson, George, 05 Jun 1929, aged 47, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Brandon Cemetery [More information ...] | ||||||
Brown, Norman, 01 Mar 1929, aged 29, Fitter, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...] | ||||||
 | Burn, Christopher, 05 Aug 1949, aged 48, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery | |||||
Craggs, John, 1957, aged 19, hit by strap [approximate date] | ||||||
 | Crich, Thomas, 07 Oct 1935, (accident: 20 Aug 1935), a deputy in the 3rd South District found him in a breathless state and unable to speak; he then took him out to the ambulance; he died in Durham County Hospital; death was due to an abcess on his left lung as a result of being gassed in the Great War | |||||
| Dodds, Thomas, 01 Aug 1933, aged 31, he was killed when a tub ran into hom and knocked him into the tippler, he was trespassin at the time of the accident; Dodds and others had been standing on the pit heap watching coals being tipped | |||||
| Gibbon, Thomas Elliott, 18 Oct 1935, aged 48, Haulage Engineman, he was struck on the head by a descending cage in the Hutton Seam and fell 270 feet to the bottom of the shaft [More information ...] | |||||
 | Henderson, Andrew, 06 Apr 1955, aged 29, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery | |||||
Johnson, Ralph, 01 Mar 1929, aged 44, Fireman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...] | ||||||
| Lonsdale, Henry Bowers, 16 Apr 1957, aged 21, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery | |||||
| Simpson, Thomas William, 15 Dec 1955, aged 17, Buried: Meadowfield Cemetery | |||||
| Sutch, John, 07 May 1931, aged 48, Stoneman, having walked from his home at New Brancepeth to Brandon Pit House Colliery he found that the mine was idle. He had just begun the return journey accompanied by his son-in-law and a workmate when he was overtaken by a locomotive on the colliery railway, run over, and killed. The other two men had jumped to safety, but Sutch had failed to hear the locomotive approaching. It had been the custom for some time for all the men living at New Brancepeth to use the line as a short cut, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery | |||||
Taylor, Thomas W., 01 Mar 1929, aged 58, Weighman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...] | ||||||
Watson, Fred, 01 Mar 1929, aged 32, Winding Engineman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...] | ||||||
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If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
For those names marked we have
a digital photograph of the tombstone, see the information page
for further details.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Brandon Pit House Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Brandon Pit House Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1964 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- Contributions by members of the Public
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Tombstone(s) in Brandon Cemetery
- Tombstone(s) in Meadowfield Cemetery
- Tombstone(s) in Ushaw Moor Cemetery
Pictures:
- Colliery Engineering Magazine
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section of Brandon Pit House Colliery |
| External sites | |
 | Brandon & Byshottles Parish Archive |
Further Research:
Research Notes for Brandon Pit House Colliery
