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Flatworth Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Chirton
6 miles [10 km] ENE of Newcastle
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ335686, 55° 0' 41" N, 1° 28' 31" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits: New Pit
  Shaft details for New Pit
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Flatworth Colliery


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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.

The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date Inspectors Remarks
12 Aug 1859 ––––11killed by crank of engine

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Flatworth Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Flatworth Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 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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