Cornsay Fell Drifts

Location:	Cornsay
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Cowsley Drift
	Gladdow Drift (See also Gladdow Colliery)
	West Carr Drift
Owners:	1930's - J. Lawson
Output:	1927 - Cowsley Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1927 - Gladdow Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1929 - Cowsley Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1929 - Rackwood Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1929 - West Carr Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1930 - Cowsley Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1930 - Gladdow Drift - Coal.
	1930 - Rackwood Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1930 - West Carr Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing.
	1934 - Cowsley Drift - Coal: Coking, Household.
	1934 - Rackwood Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1934 - West Carr Drift - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1927 - Cowsley Drift - 11 (7 below, 4 surface)
	1927 - Gladdow Drift - 4 (3 below, 1 surface) [Closed 1/10/27]
	1929 - Cowsley Drift - 11 (7 below, 4 surface)
	1929 - Rackwood Drift - 23 (14 below, 9 surface)
	1929 - West Carr Drift - 40 (29 below, 11 surface)
	1930 - Cowsley Drift - 8 (6 below, 2 surface)
	1930 - Gladdow Drift - 0 [Standing]
	1930 - Rackwood Drift - 22 (16 below, 6 surface)
	1930 - West Carr Drift - 32 (25 below, 7 surface)
	1934 - Cowsley Drift - 5 (3 below, 2 surface)
	1934 - Rackwood Drift - 13 (10 below, 3 surface)
	1934 - West Carr Drift - 13 (10 below, 3 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked:	1927 - Cowsley Drift - Main
	1927 - Gladdow Drift - Main [Closed 1/10/27]
	1929 - Cowsley Drift - Main
	1929 - Rackwood Drift - Main
	1929 - West Carr Drift - Ballarat, Five Quarter, Main, Top
	1930 - Cowsley Drift - Main
	1930 - Gladdow Drift - Main [Standing]
	1930 - Rackwood Drift - Main
	1930 - West Carr Drift - Ballarat, Five Quarter, Top
	1934 - Cowsley Drift - Main
	1934 - Rackwood Drift - Ballarat, Harvey, Three Quarter
	1934 - West Carr Drift - Ballarat, Five Quarter
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Cornsay Fell Drifts
Notes:	1933, 31 Aug - Five Quarter seam abandoned
	1934, 20 Aug - Main seam abandoned
	1936, 25 Apr - Five Quarter seam abandoned
	1937, 20 Oct - Mine seam abandoned

Description

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Names of those killed at this colliery

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Credits

Sources:

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.



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Cornsay Fell Drifts

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