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Blue Bell Pit |
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Blue Bell Pit |
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| Location: |
Shiremoor
6 miles [10 km] NE of Newcastle
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 88) NZ313713, 55° 2' 7" N, 1° 30' 37" W |
| Maps: |
 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
1915 |
| Owners: |
1890's - Owners of Backworth & West Cramlington Collieries |
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1900's - Owners of Backworth Collieries |
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1910's - Backworth Collieries Ltd. |
| Output: |
1896 - Coal: Steam. |
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1902 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay. |
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1914 - Coal: Household, Steam. Fireclay. |
| Employment: |
| Year | Pit | Total |  | Below | Above |
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| 1896 | | 321 |   | 262 | 59 |
| 1902 | | 584 | | 485 | 99 |
| 1914 | | 643 | | 513 | 130 |
| 1934 | | 12 | | 10 | 2 |
| 1934 | | Sinking |
| 1935 | | 11 | | 8 | 3 |
| 1935 | | Sinking |
| 1936 | | Sinking |
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Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: |
1914 - Main Coal, Yard |
| Notes: |
Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Blue Bell Pit |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
| | | | | | | Lilley, Samuel Young, 15 Dec 1896, aged 16, Way End Boy, The rope on the engine plane broke and deceased hearing the set coming went to his rapper hole and was struck by the rope end as it passed [Inspection made & inquest attended] |
| | | | | | | Pratt, Joseph, 19 Jul 1900, Hewer, died from syncope whilst at work |
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2 names found |
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Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536)
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1936 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983
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