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Lead Mill Drift |
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Lead Mill Drift |
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Lead Mill Drift
| Location: |
Butterknowle
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
08 May 1931 |
| Owners: |
1920's - Lead Mill Colliery Co. |
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1930's - New Lead Mill Colliery Co. |
| Output: |
1923 - Coal: Coking. |
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1924 - Coal: Coking. |
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1925 - Coal: Coking. |
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1927 - Coal: Coking. |
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1929 - Coal: Coking. |
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1930 - Coal: Coking. |
| Employment: |
1923 - 38 (35 below, 3 surface) |
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1924 - 44 (39 below, 5 surface) |
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1925 - 49 (40 below, 9 surface) [Closed 23/06/25] |
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1927 - 26 (25 below, 1 surface) |
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1929 - 21 (19 below, 2 surface) |
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1930 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface) |
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Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: |
1923 - Cowley |
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1924 - Cowley |
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1925 - Cowley [Closed 23/06/25] |
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1927 - Cowley |
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1929 - Cowley |
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1930 - Cowley |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Lead Mill Drift |
| Notes: |
1931, 08 May - Cowley seam abandoned |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
Credits
Sources:
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1924 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.
- 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1929 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.
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