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Middridge Drift


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: nr. Shildon
10 miles [16 km] S of Durham
Map Ref: (Sheet 93) NZ244268, 54° 38' 11" N, 1° 37' 16" W
Opened: 1954
Closed: 1992?
Owners: 1960's - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
1982 - C. H. Steavenson
1984 - Northumbria Mining Ltd.
1988 - R. & A. Young Mining Ltd.
Output: 1964 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Industrial, Manufacturing.
1984 - Coal.
1990 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1991 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
196031028525
196135430648
196439936930
1990352510
1991352510
  NCB Employment Figures
Seams Worked: 1960 - Brass Thill
1961 - Brass Thill
1964 - Brass Thill
1984 - Brass Thill
1990 - Brass Thill
1991 - Brass Thill
Notes:

1966, Aug - Closed by N.C.B.

1988 - Reopened as as Private Licensed Mine


  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  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!

      

Hodgson, Robert Henry, 01 Aug 1962

 
  1 name 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.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Middridge Drift

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Middridge Drift


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 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
  • 1984 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1990 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1991 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
  • Contributions by members of the Public

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Related Links:

None found

Further Reading:

  • British Small Mines (North) by A. J. Booth, published in 2000 by Industrial Railway Society, ISBN 1 901556 15 8
  • 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 Middridge Drift

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