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  Fell End Colliery  Index  Fell End Colliery  

Fell End Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Haltwhistle
12 miles [19 km] NNW of Alston
Map Ref: (Sheet 86, 87, OL43) NY676652, 54° 58' 52" N, 2° 30' 21" W
Opened:
Closed: 1951
Pits:   Shaft details for Fell End Colliery
Owners: 1860's - Snaith, Son & Hasterwell
1880's - South Tyne Coal Co.
1880's - R. Hastwell & Co.
1910's - John Jackson
1910's - Mrs. J. Jackson
1940's - Fell End Colliery Co.
Output: 1882 - Coal (Landsale).
1888 - Coal (Landsale).
1914 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1921 - Coal: Manufacturing.
1940 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. (5,000 tons)
1948 - Coal: Household.
1949 - Coal: Household.
1950 - Coal: Household.
1951 - Coal: Household.
1952 - Coal: Household.
1953 - Coal: Household.
Employment: 1914 - 3
1921 - 4 (2 below, 2 surface)
1940 - 21 (17 below, 4 surface)
1945 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface)
1948 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface)
1949 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface)
1950 - 10 (9 below, 1 surface)
1951 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface)
1952 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface)
1953 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface) [Terminated]
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1921 - Little Limestone
1940 - Little Limestone
1948 - Little Limestone
1949 - Little Limestone
1950 - Little Limestone
1951 - Little Limestone
1952 - Little Limestone
1953 - Little Limestone [Terminated]


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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

No names found.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Fell End Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Fell End Colliery


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 1880 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a 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.
  • 1921 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.
  • 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, 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.
  • 1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1953 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885

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