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| Location: | Rainton 4½ miles [7 km] NE of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ324477, 54° 49' 25" N, 1° 29' 43" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| Opened: | 1824 |
| Closed: | 1897 |
| Sinking Started: | 01 Jun 1821 |
| Pits: | Shaft details for Meadows Pit |
| Owners: | 1850's - Lady F. A. Vane Londonderry |
| 1890's - Marquess of Londonderry | |
| Output: | 1888 - Coal. |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1896 - 0 [Abandoned] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Meadows Pit |
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| Notes: | 1821, Jun 01 - The Meadows West Pit, West Rainton, was commenced, and reached the Hutton Seam, and finished sinking on 12 June, 1824. |
1896, 31 Dec - Five Quarter, High Main, Maudlin, Low Main seams abandoned - Mineral being unprofitable to work |
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| Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Meadows Pit |
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Description
At the Rainton Colliery, which is the property of the Marquis of Londonderry, there are three pits from which coal is raised, named the Adventure, Alexandrina, and Meadow pits, sunk in the years, 1817, 1824, and 1824 respectively. The seams worked are the Five Quarter, High Main, Maudlin, and Low Main, the Hutton seam being practically exhausted. The coals produced are Londonderry Wallsend, Pittington Wallsend, and Londonderry Primrose, for household purposes, and the Hartley for steam purposes. Number of stationary engines in use is 31 ; boilers, 38 ; number of men and boys employed, 1185 ; houses occupied by workmen, 835.
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!
Cardy, David, 28 May 1889, aged 36, Deputy, explosion of a charge of roburite ; he appears to have mismanaged the lighter and cap | ||||||
Dawson, Robert, 31 Dec 1891, 3:30 p.m., 10th hour of shift, aged 33, Putter, fall of roof at the flat he was putting to | ||||||
 | Gordon, Roland, 21 Apr 1942, aged 18, Datal, caught by tubs, Buried: Houghton Cemetery | |||||
 | Hall, Thomas, 07 Aug 1848, aged 10, he was passing upon a waggon which conveys the tubs up an incline plane to the top of the pit heap, fell and alighted upon the sole-end of a waggon standing below, by which his head was so severely bruised that he died almost immediately | |||||
 | Hollis, William, 11 Dec 1945, aged 37, his father (John) was killed 10 years earlier at Houghton Colliery, Buried: Houghton Cemetery | |||||
| Stones, Peter, 06 Nov 1849, aged 73, he was crushed to death by a large fall of stone while working in the "waste" of the Low Main seam | |||||
Thompson, Thomas, 11 Dec 1860, aged 13, Pony Putter, head crushed by a tub | ||||||
Turton, Nicholas, 04 Jan 1951, left a wife and nine children, address: Shakespeare Street, Houghton-le-Spring | ||||||
Willey, John, 15 Sep 1881, aged 40, Engineer, while descending the pumping shaft along with two other men he fell from the loop, a distance of 60 yards [More information ...] | ||||||
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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
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Meadows Pit
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Meadows Pit
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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
- 1860 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 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
- 1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume L-R, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1887
- 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 Houghton-le-Spring Cemetery
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Meadows Pit
