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Iveston Colliery
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| Location: | Iveston 10 miles [16 km] WNW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ133505, 54° 50' 57" N, 1° 47' 34" W |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | 1839 |
| Closed: | 1892 |
| Pits: | Shaft details for Iveston Colliery |
| Owners: | 1839 - Black, Reay & Co. |
| 1857 - Jonathan Richardson & Partners | |
| 1860's - Consett Iron Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1896 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface) [Standing] |
| 1902 - 0 [Standing] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Iveston Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1839 - Iveston Colliery, near Shotley Bridge, was won. |
1866 - Sunnyside Pumping shaft, Iveston Colliery, was sunk from the surface to the Brockwell Seam. |
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1867 - A boring was put down below the thill of the Busty Seam, Sunnyside Pit, Iveston Colliery, to prove the Brockwell Seam. |
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Description
Iveston Colliery is not at present being worked, though there is a small landsale worked near the village, the coal royalty having been left by one of the Claverings for the people of Iveston manor, who are only required to pay the cost of leading and getting the coal. A powerful duplex pumping engine has been placed at the pumping shaft, situated to the east of Iveston, which raises the water from the Royalty, below water level, to the Consett Iron Works.
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham
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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!
Akens, Patrick, 08 Jan 1859, aged 28, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof | ||||||
Atkinson, Matthew, 28 Apr 1865, aged 60, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
Donely, Patrick, 02 Mar 1875, aged 25, Hewer, fall of top coal | ||||||
 | Fitzpartick, James, 17 Nov 1877, aged 47 | |||||
Gardner, George, 26 Apr 1884, aged 17, Putter, severely crushed between two tubs in shaft siding | ||||||
Grey, Silas/Sylvester, 03 Jun 1876, aged 33, Deputy, fall of large stone while in the act of drawing a jud | ||||||
Hardy, Thomas, 25 Apr 1890, aged 51, Hewer, fall of stone from a slip in the roof | ||||||
Hunter, George, 24 Feb 1866, aged 26, Joiner, fell down staple whilst laying a floor in engine house - plank canted | ||||||
Lupton, William, 12 Dec 1868, aged 36, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal | ||||||
McCann, William J., 17 Apr 1860, aged 26, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof | ||||||
Morden, Richard, 08 Jul 1883, (accident: 31 May 1883), aged 23, Hewer, strained side while lifting stone; after working two days he left off and died from inflammation | ||||||
O'Neal, James, 13 Mar 1863, aged 24, Hewer, fall of stone in pillar working | ||||||
Parkes, Thomas, 04 Mar 1870, aged 17, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal | ||||||
Quin, Bernard, 31 May 1887, aged 18, Putter, while leading a pony down a bord it stumbled and fell on him, crushing him to death | ||||||
Rafferty, Patrick, 21 May 1880, (accident: 17 May 1880), aged 39, Collier, head severely crushed between tub and side of way; while assisting to put it on the way the pony started | ||||||
Sibbett, William, 13 Aug 1878, aged 21, Collier, fall of band stone while working under it without sprags, contrary to orders | ||||||
Spark, Thomas Mathew, 19 Nov 1874, aged 13, Driver, crushed between tub and crowntree, Chester Ward Coroner's Inquest, place: Leadgate, cause: crushed at Iveston colliery (DRO Ref: COR/C/2/142) | ||||||
Toole, Terence, 17 Oct 1872, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
Waggot, John, 18 Dec 1860, aged 22, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
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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
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Iveston Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Iveston Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1859 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1860 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1863 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1865 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1866 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1869 List of Mines
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124)
- 1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C 840)
- 1873-4 List of Mines
- 1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1499)
- 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1734)
- 1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903)
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078)
- 1884 List of Mines
- 1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429)
- 1887 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5450)
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Related Links:
| External sites | |
 | A description of the Consett Iron Works from 1892 - part of the GENUKI site for family historians |
Further Reading:
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3, provides a brief history of the colliery along with the history of the associated Miners Lodge Banner
