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Barrasford Quarry
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| Location: | Barrasford 6½ miles [10 km] NNW of Hexham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 87, OL43) NY913744, 55° 3' 50" N, 2° 8' 10" W |
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| Owners: | 1980's - Northumberland Whinstone Co. Ltd. |
| Output: | 1922 - Igneous rock. |
| 1984 - Igneous rock. | |
| Employment: | 1922 - 41 (30 below, 11 surface) |
| Notes: |  Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Barrasford Quarry |
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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!
 | Dixon, Emmerson, 01 Oct 1902, aged 70 | |||||
Laidler, John, 13 Jul 1909, aged 69, Engineman, caught by elevator belt | ||||||
Nixon, Thomas, 13 Jan 1904, aged 20, Quarryman [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 page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the
Coal Mining History Resource Centre
and are marked with , further details
may be obtained by contacting Ian by email at
ian.winstanley@blueyonder.co.uk
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 Barrasford Quarry
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Barrasford Quarry
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Credits
Sources:
- 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177)
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey
- 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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