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  North End Colliery  Index  North End Colliery  

North End Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Cockfield
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:   Shaft details for North End Colliery
Owners: 1860's - Simpson Walker
1880's - Walker, Stevens & Co.
1890's - Owners of North End Colliery
Output: 1873 - Coal.
1888 - Coal.
1896 - Coal: Household.
1923 - Coal: Steam.
1924 - Coal: Household.
1925 - Coal: Household.
1927 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment: 1896 - 14 (10 below, 4 surface)
1923 - 23 (18 below, 5 surface)
1924 - 21 (15 below, 6 surface)
1925 - 9 (6 below, 3 surface)
1927 - 6 (5 below, 1 surface) [Closed 19/11/27]
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1923 - Main Coal
1924 - Main Coal
1925 - Main
1927 - Five Quarter [Closed 19/11/27]
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for North End Colliery
Notes:

1898 - Abandoned - Minerals being in a great measure exhausted, and the remainder under water



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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!

      

Simpson, Thomas, 19 Oct 1858, aged 19, Blacksmith, killed by gin lever ; horse fell and broke shafts

 
  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.


  Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1858 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 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
  • 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
  • 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 1927 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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