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  Greenlaw Walls Colliery  Index  Greenlaw Walls Colliery  

Greenlaw Walls Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Duddo
7 miles [11 km] SSW of Berwick
Map Ref: (Sheet 74, 75) NT943431, 55° 40' 55" N, 2° 5' 22" W
Maps: 1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Pits: Lady Pit
  Shaft details for Lady Pit
Owners: 1860's - Scremerston & Shoreswood Coal Co.


  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

  8th Apr 1857  5 lives lost (Show Names)

  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

     

Hogarth, -, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

     

Hogarth, -, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

     

Oliver, Andrew, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

     

Patterson, Thomas, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

     

Robson, John, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

 
  5 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.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre and are marked with , further details may be obtained by contacting Ian by email at ian.winstanley@blueyonder.co.uk

  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 Greenlaw Walls Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Greenlaw Walls Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 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

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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