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Newton Colliery
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| Location: | Newton-on-the-Moor 5 miles [8 km] S of Alnwick |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 81) NU172055, 55° 20' 37" N, 1° 43' 41" W |
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| Pits: | Engine Pit |
| Hunter Pit, locn: (Sheet 81) NU157047, sinking: 1835 | |
 Shaft details for Hunter Pit |
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| Owners: | 1860's - R. G. Reed |
| 1880's - S. F. Widdrington | |
| 1890's - Newton Coal Co. Ltd. | |
| 1900's - Newton Colliery Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1882 - Coal (Landsale). |
| 1888 - Newton - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1890 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1896 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1902 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1896 - 28 (24 below, 4 surface) |
| 1902 - 25 (21 below, 4 surface) | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Newton Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1889 - Shilbottle seam abandoned - Coal worked out to water level. |
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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!
Bennison, Robert Jenkinson, 22 Aug 1903, aged 20, Engineer, A shaft re-opened after a recent abandonment had partly filled with water, which was in course of being pumped out. Deceased, the son of the manager, and not regularly employed about collieries, was on a scaffold about 45 fathoms from the surface assisting another man to fix a suction pipe to the pump. The water was about 1 foot below the scaffold, and about 40 feet deep. A stone fell from the side of the shaft and knocked him into the water, and he was drowned. The shaft was walled to within 6 fathoms of the scaffold; below the walling was the natural strata, which had been examined by a shaft man, and it appeared secure. | ||||||
Purvis, John, 14 Aug 1884, aged 30, Hewer, fall of timber from shaft side | ||||||
Riddell, Thomas, 11 Aug 1884, aged 67, Furnaceman, suffocated by styth, shaft having collapsed and stopped ventilation | ||||||
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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.
The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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| 13 Feb 1857 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of stone |
| 17 Jul 1862 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | boiler explosion |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Newton Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Newton Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1869 List of Mines
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 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
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