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  Barcus Close Colliery  Index  Barcus Close Colliery  

Barcus Close Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: nr. Burnopfield
6½ miles [10 km] SW of Newcastle
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ171578, 54° 54' 52" N, 1° 44' 0" W
Opened:
Closed: Apr 1966
Owners: 1910's - Barcus Close Coal Co. Ltd.
1960's - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output: 1921 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
1930 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1953 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.
1955 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.
1960 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.
1961 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.
1964 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
192122166
1930796118
194034295
195316714621
195521118526
196026323033
196126323033
196426021446
  NCB Employment Figures
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1921 - Brass Thill, Five Quarter
1930 - Brass Thill, Five Quarter, Hutton, Little Hutton
1953 - Three Quarter
1955 - Three Quarter
1960 - Brockwell, Victoria
1961 - Brockwell, Three Quarter, Victoria
1964 - Brockwell, Three Quarter, Victoria
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Barcus Close Colliery
Notes:

1931, 16 Oct - Five Quarter seam abandoned

1932, 17 Sep - Brass Thill seam abandoned

1933, 04 Nov - Little Hutton or Hutton Section seam abandoned

1944, Dec - Hutton, Section E seams 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

No names found.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Barcus Close Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Barcus Close Colliery


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 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.
  • 1953 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1961 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
  • History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.

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