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Middle Bitchburn Colliery
also known as Middle Beechburn Colliery
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| Location: | Howden-le-Wear |
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| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Owners: | 1860's - George Peers & Co. |
| 1880's - Middle Beechburn Coal & Coke Co. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Middle Bitchburn Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1878 - Five Quarter Or Busty seam abandoned |
1894 - Constantine, Ballarat seams abandoned - coal exhausted |
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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
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Harrison, Richard, 30 Apr 1868, aged 65, Horse Keeper, crushed by tubs in engine plane | ||||||
Megrow, John, 01 May 1872, aged 20, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | ||||||
Scott, William, 18 Jan 1865, aged 12, Horse Driver, crushed by horse and tub on surface | ||||||
Thompson, T. W., 17 Aug 1890, aged 4, [Not Employed], strayed on to a tramway and was run over and killed by a set of tubs [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a colliery accident] | ||||||
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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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
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Credits
Sources:
- 1865 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1869 List of Mines
- 1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C 840)
- 1873-4 List of Mines
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1884 List of Mines
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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Related Links:
None found
Further Reading:
- 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
