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  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Leadgate
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners: 1900's - Consett Iron Co. Ltd.
Output: 1902 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1914 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1921 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1930 - Coal: Household.
1950 - Castle & Hutton - Coal: Household.
Employment: 1902 - 30 (26 below, 4 surface)
1914 - 0 [inc. in Eden]
1921 - 0 [Not worked]
1930 - 0 [See Eden]
1945 - Castle & Hutton - 165 (160 below, 5 surface)
1950 - Castle & Hutton - 0 [inc. in Eden]
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1914 - Brass Thill, Five Quarter
1921 - Brass Thill, Five Quarter [Not Worked]
1930 - Brass Thill, Five Quarter
1950 - Castle & Hutton - Brass Thill, Five Quarter, Hutton, Little, Main


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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!

      

Johnson, James, 08 Feb 1859, Bank Boy, fell over pit heap in a coal tub

 
  1 name found

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.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1859 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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