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  Featherstone Colliery  Index  Featherstone Colliery  

Featherstone Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Coanwood
8½ miles [13 km] NNW of Alston
Map Ref: (Sheet 86, 87, OL43) NY685594, 54° 55' 42" N, 2° 29' 30" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits: No. 1 Pit, closed: Nov 1934
No. 2 Pit, closed: Sep 1935
No. 3 Pit
No. 4 Pit
No. 5 Pit
Owners: 1890's - Thompson & Sons
1930's - Tallentyre, Armstrong, Walton & Hudspith
1940's - Tallentyre, Armstrong, Todd & Dickinson
Output: 1888 - Coal.
1890 - Coal.
1896 - Coal: Steam.
1902 - Coal: Steam.
1927 - Coal: Household.
1929 - Coal: Household.
1930 - Coal: Household.
1930 - No. 2 - Coal: Household.
1934 - Coal: Household.
1934 - No. 2 - Coal: Household.
1940 - No. 5 - Coal: Household. (1,300 tons)
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
189630526045
190213210626
1927651
192912102
193012102
1930No. 2431
Total16133
1934Abandoned 11/34
1934No. 2862
Total862
1940No. 5862
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1927 - Five Quarter
1929 - Five Quarter
1930 - Five Quarter, High Main
1930 - No. 2 - High Main
1934 - Five Quarter [Abandoned 11/34]
1934 - No. 2 - High Main
1940 - No. 5 - Five Quarter
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Featherstone Colliery
Notes:

1900 - Abandoned - Partially exhausted. Not convenient to work the remainder at present

1905 - Five Quarter seam abandoned - coal exhausted

1935, 16 Sep - High Main or Coam Roof seam abandoned

1936, 30 Jun - Five Quarter (Slag) seam abandoned

1944, Mar - Five Quarter seam abandoned



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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!

      

Bell, Anthony, 25 Aug 1903, aged 44, Engineman, crushed by tubs [More information ...]

      

Sharp, Robert, 15 Mar 1889, aged 33, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal

      

Simms, Robert, 26 Sep 1885, aged 55, Labourer, excavating earthwork; a portion fell and knocked him down, his head falling on a rail

 
  3 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.

  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 Featherstone Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Featherstone Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.

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