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Low Butterknowle Colliery
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| Location: | Low Butterknowle |
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| Maps: |  1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| Opened: | |
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| Owners: | 1910's - Theophilus Dixon |
| 1957 - Lower Butterknowle Colliery [1957] Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1914 - Coal: Household. |
| 1921 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1925 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. | |
| 1961 - Coal. | |
| 1967 - Coal: Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1914 - 26 (23 below, 3 surface) |
| 1921 - 20 (17 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1925 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1940 - 13 | |
| 1952 - 13 (11 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1955 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1960 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1961 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1964 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1967 - 12 (8 below, 4 surface) | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: | 1914 - Harvey |
| 1921 - Harvey | |
| 1925 - Harvey [Standing] | |
| 1952 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| 1955 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| 1960 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| 1961 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| 1964 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| 1967 - Brockwell, Five Quarter | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Low Butterknowle 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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1925 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.
- 1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1961 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1964 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1967 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
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Related Links:
| External sites | |
 | Gaunless Valley History Trust |
