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Brusselton Tower Colliery
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| Location: | nr. West Auckland 12 miles [19 km] SSW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 93) NZ203249, 54° 37' 7" N, 1° 41' 8" W |
| Maps: |  1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
| Opened: | 1925 |
| Closed: | 1968 |
| Owners: | 1930's - Brusselton Tower Coal Co. |
| Output: | 1940 - Coal: Household, Steam. (10,000 tons) |
| 1950 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1955 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1960 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1961 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1964 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing. | |
| Employment: | 1940 - 25 (19 below, 6 surface) |
| 1945 - 24 (19 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1950 - 29 (24 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1955 - 30 (25 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1960 - 20 (16 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1961 - 20 (16 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1964 - 13 (9 below, 4 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1940 - Busty, Harvey |
| 1950 - Beaumont, Busty | |
| 1955 - Beaumont, Busty, Hutton | |
| 1960 - Hutton | |
| 1961 - Hutton | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Brusselton Tower Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1947, Sep - Brockwell 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!
 | Henning, William, 28 Feb 1944, (accident: 10 Feb 1944), aged 48, died from the explosion of a shot [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.
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 Brusselton Tower Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Brusselton Tower Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Contributions by members of the Public
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
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