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Dipton Colliery
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| Location: | Dipton 9 miles [14 km] SW of Newcastle |
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| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ154534, 54° 52' 30" N, 1° 45' 36" W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | Apr 1855 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed: | Nov 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pits: | Delight Pit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Surtees (No. 2) Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ154545, sinking: Feb 1883 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shaft details for Surtees (No. 2) Pit |
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| Owners: | 1850's - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1880's - John Bowes & Partners Ltd. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Output: | 1882 - Coal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1888 - Coal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1890 - Coal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1896 - Coal: Coking, Gas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1902 - Coal: Coking, Gas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914 - Coal: Coking, Gas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921 - Coal: Coking, Gas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. Fireclay. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: | 1894 - Busty, Hutton, Main Coal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914 - Busty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1921 - Busty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 - Busty, Main | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1934 - Brockwell, Busty, Main, Three Quarter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Dipton Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1731 - Boring operations were commenced at Dipton. |
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1853 - A new pit was sunk at Dipton Colliery alongside the Delight Pit from the surface to the Bottom Busty Seam. |
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1867 - New winning sunk at Dipton Colliery from the surface to the Brass Thill Seam. |
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1904, Aug - Unprofitable |
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| Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Dipton Colliery |
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Description
Coal has been worked in this neighbourhood from a very early period, chiefly by drifts, which are very numerous along the valley of the Derwent, and in many place the top seams are almost worked out. At present there are three extensive collieries at work in this parish [Dipton]. The Delight pit, sunk in 1854, is now worked by Jno. Bowes and Partners, Limited. The following seams are here: the Hutton, 6 feet 6 inches ; the Main Coal, 3 feet ; and the Busty, 4 feet 11 inches, at a depth of 114, 70, and 64 fathoms respectively. There are 62 coke ovens, by which the small coal is converted into coke. The average daily output is 400 tons, giving employment to 260 men and boys.
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham
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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!
Bates, Christopher, 21 Mar 1889, aged 23, Stoneman, explosion of firedamp | ||||||
Cain, W. H., 14 Sep 1936, aged 29, Driller | ||||||
Davidson, J. R., 25 Feb 1924, (accident: 06 Feb 1924), aged 42, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
 | Dent, Robert, 14 Aug 1928, aged 28, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Harelaw Cemetery (new) | |||||
Fairless, H., 29 Apr 1868, aged 28, Sinker, stone falling down shaft | ||||||
| Fenwick, George H. Purvis, 16 Jul 1937, aged 64, Onsetter, he accidentally fell 200 feet to the bottom of the shaft - he had worked for more than 51 years at the colliery, Buried: Harelaw Cemetery (new) | |||||
Graham, Joseph, 24 Oct 1883, aged 41, Stoneman, suffocation by fumes from gun powder [More information ...] | ||||||
| Greener, John William, 04 Dec 1911, aged 44, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal and band, Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton | |||||
Jackson, Richard, 22 Nov 1877, aged 16, Putter, hewing in a place where he had been twice warned not to do so - a fall of stone took place | ||||||
Lamb, Pat V., 16 Mar 1927, aged 21, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. James' Churchyard, Burnopfield {NBI} | ||||||
Maudlin, Joseph, 11 Dec 1886, aged 32, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
McGee, James, 14 Apr 1883, aged 33, Labourer, run over by tubs on surface tramway | ||||||
| McNestrie, Albert George, 02 Jun 1934, (accident: 25 May 1934), aged 34, Pan Puller, crushed by machinery, Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton [More information ...] | |||||
Nicholson, G., 12 Dec 1934, aged 25, Hewing Putter, killed by a fall of coal [More information ...] | ||||||
Ridley, Anthony, 15 Mar 1870, aged 16, Waggonman, run over by a waggon | ||||||
| Robinson, John, 22 May 1890, 9:00 p.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 45, Stoneman, killed by a fall of roof, Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton | |||||
Robinson, T. W., 16 Feb 1940, (accident: 03 Feb 1940), aged 63, Stoneman, died from injuries received | ||||||
| Storey, William, 05 Sep 1873, aged 25, Mason, stepped out of cage into shaft, Buried: St. Thomas the Apostle Churchyard, Harelaw | |||||
Taylor, Oliver, 31 Dec 1904, aged 55, Screenman [More information ...] | ||||||
Walker, James, 31 Jan 1893, 2:00 p.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 25, Hewer, He was evidently hewing when a flat stone, about 5 in. thick, fell out from between two "backs," one of them close up to the face of the coal. It is doubtful whether he had any props under the stone, but, considering the nature of the roof, and that the face was 5 ft. from the pack, he ought to have had more props set [Inspection made & inquest attended] | ||||||
| Walker, William, 04 Dec 1911, aged 32, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal and band, Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Dipton | |||||
Wymer, Reuben, 19 May 1903, (accident: 18 May 1903), aged 36, Cartman, Deceased was loading a cart at the colliery with steel bars from a railway truck. The bars were 8 feet long and each weighed more than 1 cwt. Deceased stood in the cart and as the bars were lowered to him laid them crossways and had so placed three of them when the horse moved forward; deceased fell off backwards, and the three bars rolled off and fell upon his stomach. | ||||||
Young, Thomas, 14 Aug 1874, aged 21, Stoneman, explosion of powder | ||||||
| 24 names 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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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 Dipton Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Dipton Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1867 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124)
- 1874 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1216)
- 1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2003)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078)
- 1886 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5090)
- 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
- 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Newcastle District (No. 3) by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1893 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7339), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, 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
- 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
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Tombstone(s) in Old Cemetery, Harelaw
- Tombstone(s) in St. Thomas the Apostle Churchyard, Harelaw
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
Pictures:
- Picture from the Derwentdale Local History Society web site - used with permission.
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Delight Pit |
| External sites | |
 | Derwentdale Local History Society |
Further Research:
Research Notes for Dipton Colliery
