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| Location: | Sacriston 4 miles [6 km] NW of Durham |
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| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ233476, 54° 49' 21" N, 1° 38' 14" W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
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| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Pits: | Witton Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ233474, sinking: 1859 (See also Witton Colliery) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owners: | 1860's - Elliot, Hunter & Co. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1900's - Charlaw & Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1888 - Coal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1902 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1923 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929 - Shield Row Drift - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Shield Row Drift - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Shield Row Drift - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seams Worked: | 1894 - Busty, Hutton, Low Main | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914 - Brass Thill, Hutton, Low Main | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1923 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927 - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929 - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929 - Shield Row Drift - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Shield Row Drift - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Shield Row Drift - Brass Thill, Brockwell, Busty, Hutton, Low Main, Shield Row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Charlaw Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1859 - Witton Pit, Charlaw Colliery, was sunk from the surface to the Hutton Seam. |
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1872 - Witton Pit, Charlaw Colliery, was sunk from the Hutton to the Busty Seam. |
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1881, May - Main Coal seam abandoned |
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1884 - Five Quarter seam abandoned |
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Description
The Sacriston and Charlaw collieries are carried on by Messrs. Hunter and Elliott. The seams now worked (1891) are "Low Main," 2 to 3 ft. at 50 fathoms ; "Hutton," 2 ft. 6 in., 60 fathoms ; and "Busty," from 4 to 5 ft. at about 100 fathoms. The output of the Charlaw pit is about 500 tons per day, and the number of hands employed is 300. The Sacriston is expected shortly to be in full operation, when the output is estimated at 1000 tons per day, and the number employed at 600. There are also coke ovens to be erected here shortly.
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Ainsley, Thomas, 07 Aug 1862, aged 21, Hewer, killed by fall of stone | ||||||
Attey, Christopher, 07 Aug 1861, aged 36, Deputy, fall of stone while drawing a jud | ||||||
Bell, Cuthbert, 05 Jun 1873, aged 39, Shifter, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
Bell, William, 30 Nov 1895, (accident: 19 Nov 1895, 7:30 p.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 38, Stoneman, back broken by a fall of stone after having fired a shot in a canch | ||||||
Burns, Peter, 30 Jul 1908, (accident: 20 Jul 1908), aged 37, Hewer, crushed by cage [More information ...] | ||||||
Cuthbert, William R., 19 Aug 1889, (accident: 05 Aug 1889), aged 20, Hewer, he received a puncture wound in the palm of his hand with a copper pricker while pushing it into a powder shot, died from the injury | ||||||
Danskin, Robert, 06 Aug 1895, 10:30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 14, Driver, riding out on a full tub, against orders, and there not being room, his neck was broken between tub and roof | ||||||
Forster, George, 02 Sep 1885, aged 38, Hewer, fall of stone at a slip next to the bord | ||||||
Gascoigne, W. D., 24 Aug 1906, aged 20, Putter, Death due to natural causes. | ||||||
Gibson, Morton, 18 Jan 1894, (accident: 10 Dec 1892, 4:30 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 59, Hewer, Died to-day from the effects of a blow, from a pick, on his chest on the 16th December 1892 [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a colliery accident] | ||||||
Glynn, Malachi, 17 Jun 1870, (accident: 24 May 1870), aged 33, Hewer, fall of stone while working in a place contrary to orders | ||||||
 | Golden, Martin, 19 Mar 1901, aged 13, Landing Lad, he went in-bye from landing to driver's siding and met the driver there; he then got, illegally, into the driver's set, the tub on which he was riding up-ended, and he was thrown off and jammed between tub and side, sustaining fatal injuries, Buried: St. Bede's (R.C.) Churchyard, Sacriston [More information ...] | |||||
Greener, John, 20 Jul 1894, 12:15 p.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 39, Screenman, Fall of stone in his working place [More information ...] | ||||||
Littleton, Richard, 25 Aug 1891, 11:30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 19, Hewer, fall of a large stone from a slip in a jud, which broke his back | ||||||
McCue, James, 10 Jan 1873, aged 17, Putter, head crushed between tub and prop | ||||||
Millet, Charles, 20 Nov 1872, aged 41, Sinker, ascending sinking shaft, the kibble in which he was riding caught the pumps, causing him to fall out | ||||||
Moor, Thomas, 10 Jul 1863, aged 11, Coupler, crushed by tubs | ||||||
Murphy, William, 27 Dec 1867, aged 35, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
Nixon, John, 10 Oct 1912, aged 54, Deputy, a set of 40 full tubs was being hauled to the shaft, when for some reason or other some of the tubs left the rails after the set had descended a gradient of 1 in 9; several props were knocked out and also two balks, causing a fall of roof across the whole width of the roadway for a distance of 10 feet; deputies were soon at work ridding the fall, when about an hour afterwards a stone 2 feet thick suddenly fell without warning and killed Nixon and injured other two deputies; the deceased had sounded the stone only a few minutes before and considered it safe to work under | ||||||
Nixon, Thomas Anthony, 03 May 1904, aged 48, Coal Cutter Driver, in starting the coal cutter he got caught by the disc of the coal cutter; the coal cutter switch had been inadvertently turned on by himself, and in consequence, when the current was turned on at the gateway switch the machine started, and he was close to the wheel and was caught [More information ...] | ||||||
Nixon, William, 09 Aug 1879, aged 19, Driver, severely crushed by side stone, crushing him against tub on main way while taking a set of men in-bye | ||||||
Turnbull, John, 11 Mar 1875, aged 53, Blacksmith, injured while laying on a new rope, Chester Ward Coroner's Inquest, place: Sacriston Colliery, cause: compound fracture, leg (DRO Ref: COR/C/2/237) | ||||||
Wright, John, 26 May 1884, aged 36, Hewer, fall of a very large stone while working close to the face of a bord | ||||||
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The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Charlaw Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Charlaw Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1861 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1862 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1863 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1867 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1869 List of Mines
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124)
- 1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C 840)
- 1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1056)
- 1873-4 List of Mines
- 1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1499)
- 1879 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2604)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1884 List of Mines
- 1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429)
- 1885 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4760)
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015)
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)
- 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672)
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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.
- 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1929 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.
- 1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume C-E, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1881
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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