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  Kibblesworth Colliery  Index  Kibblesworth Colliery  

Kibblesworth Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Kibblesworth
5 miles [8 km] S of Newcastle
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ243562, 54° 53' 59" N, 1° 37' 16" W
Maps: 1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)
Opened: 1842
Closed: 04 Oct 1974
Pits: Glamis Pit
Robert Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ241562
  Shaft details for Robert Pit
Owners: 1850's - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer)
1860's - Marley Hill Coal Co.
1880's - John Bowes & Partners Ltd.
1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output: 1882 - Coal.
1888 - Coal.
1890 - Coal.
1896 - Coal: Gas, Household.
1902 - Coal: Gas, Household.
1914 - Coal: Gas, Household.
1921 - Coal: Gas, Household.
1930 - Robert - Coal: Gas, Household.
1947 - Glamis - Coal: Coking. (146,600 tons)
1947 - Robert - Coal: Gas. (70,000 tons)
1950 - Glamis - Coal: Coking.
1950 - Robert - Coal: Gas.
1950 - Shield Row Drift - Coal.
1960 - Glamis - Coal: Coking.
1960 - Robert - Coal: Gas.
1970 - Coal: Coking.
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
1854Working
189629823464
190231124467
191442634383
1921465335130
1930Robert552437115
1940703553150
1945Glamis46237884
1945Robert21318132
Total675559116
1947Glamis45036090
1947Robert21518035
Total665540125
1950Glamis610475135
1950Robert34627571
Total956750206
1960Glamis730620110
1960Robert30024060
Total1,030860170
1970930814116
  NCB Employment Figures
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1914 - Five Quarter, Hutton, Low Main, Main Coal
1921 - Five Quarter, Hutton, Low Main, Main Coal
1930 - Robert - Five Quarter, Low Main, Main
1950 - Glamis - Busty
1950 - Robert - Five Quarter, Hutton, Low Main, Main
1950 - Shield Row Drift - Shield Row
1960 - Glamis - Busty, Tilley
1960 - Robert - Maudlin
1970 - Brockwell, Low Main, Tilley
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Kibblesworth Colliery
Notes:

1842 - Kibblesworth Colliery commenced shipping coal and Boring operations were in progress at Kibblesworth to prove the Hutton Seam south of the village.

1865 - A boring was put down by Stott Out of the Hutton Seam, near the bottom of Kibblesworth Pit, proving the Brockwell Seam.

1898 - Boring operations were in progress to the west of Kibblesworth Colliery from the surface, to prove the Hutton Seam.

1929, 18 May - Main seam abandoned

1938, 30 Nov - Seam not proved seam abandoned

  Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Kibblesworth Colliery


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Description

The Robert Pit is carried on by Messrs. Jno. Bowes & Partners, Limited, working on the Low Main, fifty five fathoms deep, and the Hutton, sixty fathoms. The former varies from three to six feet, or an average thickness of five feet ; the Hutton seam is about four feet two inches. There are also the Five Quarter, which is about four yards above the Low Main, and the High Main, twenty fathoms deep, which is not at present worked. The daily output is about 530 tons, employing 280 men and boys. All the coals are shipped at Jarrow, and are well adapted for the manufacture of gas.

The village of Kibblesworth is one mile south from Lamesley, and five south from Gateshead. Here is a Mechanics' Institute, under the patronage of the colliery proprietors, established about 1860, containing reading room, and library of about 300 volumes.

Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1869, is a neat stone building, to seat 260 persons, at a cost of £400, the site and material being given by Jno. Bowes and Partners.

Wesleyan Chapel, erected in 1868, at a cost of £165, is a plain stone structure, and will hold about 150. The site and material were also given by the colliery proprietors.

Colliery School, erected in 1875 by the colliery owners, to accommodate 193 children. The present average is about 130.

Nether Hall, the former residence of the Greenwell family, is now let in tenements, part of which is converted into the post office, the rest occupied by miners.

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!

      

Askew, Joseph, 28 Nov 1876, Blacksmith, explosion of a steam boiler [More information ...]

      

Bell, Henry, 07 Jan 1913, aged 30, Master Wasteman [More information ...]

     

Bewley, John, 19 Sep 1855, Engineer, boiler exploded [More information ...]

      

Charlton, R. J. H., 14 Feb 1941, (accident: 13 Feb 1941), aged 44, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone

     

Cook, Joseph, 09 Mar 1931, aged 51, Deputy, on Monday night, 9th March, he was caught by a fall of stone and spent the next 20 to 30 minutes directing his own rescue operation. His rescuers had put timbers in and were on the point of releasing him when a second fall occurred and killed him

     

Cuft, Edmund, 24 Apr 1856, Fireman, boiler exploded [More information ...]

     

Davison, Norman, 13 Nov 1942, aged 41, Shot Firer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Birtley Cemetery

      

Donnelly, Samuel, 02 Nov 1906, aged 22, Screener [More information ...]

      

Gibson, William, 18 Jun 1883, aged 14, Driver, crushed by tubs

      

Graham, George, 14 May 1941, (accident: 13 May 1941), aged 45, Stoneman, died from injuries received

      

Hannen, James, 17 Aug 1892, 2:00 p.m., 8th hour of shift, aged 16, Pony Putter, Riding on the limmers, with full tubs, he came in contact with the end of a wooden "picture" which had fallen from its place, injuring his ribs, and inflicting other internal injuries. It was thought that the prop had been knocked out on the inward journey, as his tubs got off the road at that point [Inspection made & inquest attended]

      

Hepple, A., 26 Apr 1947, aged 37, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

     

Hindmarch, Joseph, 28 Nov 1876, aged 41, Blacksmith, explosion of a steam boiler, Buried: St. Andrews Churchyard, Lamesley [More information ...]

     

Hocking, George Henry, 27 Aug 1956, aged 44, Buried: Pelton Cemetery

     

Johnson, Joseph Henry, 24 Nov 1929, (accident: Oct 1929), aged 42, he died in Pelton House Hospital, Chester-le-Street five weeks after being injured by a fall of stone as he was drawing timber

     

Leadbitter, Thomas, 24 Apr 1856, Fireman, boiler exploded [More information ...]

      

Liddle, John, 12 Jan 1869, aged 64, Shifter, killed by a fall of stone

      

Murphy, Michael, 05 Dec 1940, (accident: 04 Dec 1940), aged 43, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

      

Nichol, James William, 04 Sep 1963, 12:10 p.m., Deputy Manager, he was checking a repair on the plough at the coal-face when the main chain snapped and whipped back and effectively decapitated him, he died instantly; address: 5 Cambridge Place, Birtley, Co. Durham

      

Pratt, T., 20 Jul 1945, (accident: 21 Apr 1944), aged 58, Surface Worker, died from injuries received

      

Rowell, Thomas Henry, 07 Dec 1917, aged 39, Joiner, died from injuries received whilst repairing the shaft

      

Scott, Thomas, 10 Jun 1909, aged 38, Stoneman, fall of side stone

      

Showther, W., 22 Dec 1947, aged 21, Putter, crushed

     

Sykes, William, 21 Apr 1931, aged 53, Deputy, asphyxiated by a fall of roof

      

Watson, G., 30 Oct 1937, (accident: 21 Oct 1937), aged 24, Putter, shot

 
  25 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.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

For those names marked we have a digital photograph of the tombstone, see the information page for further details.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with .

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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

Date Inspectors Remarks
24 Sep 1853 11falling down staple
09 Mar 1854 11
17 Jul 1855 11died of natural causes
18 Mar 1858 11At Kibblesworth, a man was fatally wounded by the shaft of an underground horse crank, which he attended.
08 Jan 1859 11crush of tubs
12 Oct 1859 11fall from screen
30 Jan 1861 11underground ladder
20 Apr 1862 11fall of coal
14 Aug 1862 11waggon way
08 Sep 1862 11fall of stone
13 Feb 1864 11by coal waggons
14 Jul 1865 11fall of stone

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Kibblesworth Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Kibblesworth Colliery


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 1869 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1734)
  • 1880 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078)
  • 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.
  • 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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.
  • 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
  • 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177)
  • 1913 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
  • 1921 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.
  • 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.
  • 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., 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.
  • 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1970 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
  • Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
  • Contributions by members of the Public
  • History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
  • Tombstone(s) in Pelton Cemetery
  • Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.

Pictures:

  • Colliery picture provided by David Kitching from the John Ryan Collection (©)

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Related Links:

On this site
 Newspaper articles
 Pictures in the Gallery section for Kibblesworth Colliery
 Pictures in the Memorial section for Kibblesworth Colliery

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

Further Research:

  Research Notes for Kibblesworth Colliery

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