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  Moorhouse Guards Colliery  Index  Moorhouse Guards Colliery  

Moorhouse Guards Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Seaton
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed: Sep 1945
Owners: 1880's - Seaton Fire-brick & Sanitary Tube Co.
1890's - Seaton Firebrick Co.
1930's - Thomas Lamb
Output: 1888 - Fireclay.
1890 - Fireclay.
1896 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
1902 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
1929 - Coal: Household.
1930 - Coal: Household.
1934 - Coal: Household.
Employment: 1896 - 40 (29 below, 11 surface)
1902 - 40 (29 below, 11 surface)
1929 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface)
1930 - 6 (5 below, 1 surface)
1934 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface)
1945 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface) [Abandoned]
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1929 - White Metal Band
1930 - White Metal Band
1934 - White Metal Band
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Moorhouse Guards Colliery
Notes:

1945, Sep - White Metal Band seam abandoned



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

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Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

      

Ashbridge, Robert Henry, 28 Oct 1905, (accident: 27 Oct 1905), aged 17, Set Rider [More information ...]

      

Nixon, George S., 05 Jun 1889, aged 29, Engineman, found dead between cog wheels of engine

 
  2 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.

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015)
  • 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, 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.
  • 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910)
  • 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.
  • 1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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