Earsdon Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

Further Research:

Sources:

Location:

Earsdon
6 miles [10 km] NE of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ310720, 55° 2' 29" N, 1° 30' 53" W

Maps:

1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

Closed:

22 Jun 1934

Pits:

A Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ310718, opened: 1826, sinking: 27 Feb 1826

Shaft details for A Pit

Church Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ316722, opened: 1838, sinking: 28 Nov 1837

Shaft details for Church Pit

Duke & Duchess Pit

Grange Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ323718, sinking: 15 Aug 1874

Shaft details for Grange Pit

Owners:

1890's - Owners of Backworth & West Cramlington Collieries

1910's - Backworth Collieries Ltd.

Output:

1896 - Coal: Steam.

1902 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay.

1914 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay.

1921 - Coal: Steam.

1923 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay.

1924 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1925 - Coal: Steam.

1927 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1929 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1930 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1934 - Coal: Household, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1896	533	488	45
1902	567	476	91
1914	719	554	165
1921	776	589	187
1923	743	618	125
1924	829	628	201
1925	824	618	206
1927	643	510	133
1929	581	443	138
1930	418	301	117
1934	Abandoned 6/34

Colliery Management (prior to 1955)

Seams Worked:

1914 - Bensham, Low Main, Yard

1921 - Bensham, Low Main, Yard

1923 - Bensham, Low Main, Yard

1924 - Bensham, Low Main, Yard

1925 - Bensham, Low Main, Yard

1927 - Bensham, Low Main, Main, Yard

1929 - Bensham, Low Main, Main, Yard

1930 - Bensham, Low Main, Main, Yard

1934 - Bensham, Low Main, Main [Abandoned 6/34]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Earsdon Colliery

Notes:

1934, 22 Jun - Main or Metal, Yard, Bensham, Low Main, Five Quarter seams abandoned

None Found

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more information on some of the fatalities shown above

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Earsdon Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Earsdon Colliery

1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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)
1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)
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

Gibson, Thomas, 12 Sep 1899, aged 16, Belt Boy, The boy left his proper employment and, without any authority, set in motion a waggon under the screens, and before the waggon could be stopped he was crushed between it and another truck [Inquest attended]

Hollan, Hezekiah, 19 Jul 1900, aged 27, Hewer, Supposed to have slightly cut his knee on some coal underground. He subsequently died of blood poisoning.

Lowes, John, 30 May 1904, aged 54, Chargeman, killed by a fall of stone [More information ...]

McLaren, John, 28 Jan 1914, (accident: 27 Jan 1914), aged 16, Pony Driver, deceased was driving two empty tubs inbye, on a road 12 feet wide and 4 feet 9 inches high, and was sitting in the first tub; the pony stumbled and fell, causing deceased to lurch forward, and also the front end of the tub to tilt upwards, causing the upper part of his chest to be crushed between the edge of the tub and the roof; he died the following day

4 names found

Research Notes for Earsdon Colliery



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