Oughterside Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

Sources:

Location:

Aspatria

Map Ref:

Opened:

Closed:

24 Jun 1933

Sinking Started:

1902

Owners:

???? - Oughterside Coal Co. Ltd.

1930's - Oughterside Coal Co. (1928) Ltd. (in voluntary liquidation)

Output:

1914 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1921 - Coal: Coking, Household, Steam.

1923 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1924 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.

1925 - Coal: Household.

1927 - Coal: Household.

1929 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1902	Sinking
1914	339	272	67
1921	444	341	103
1923	667	528	139
1924	358	276	82
1925	53	30	23
1927	50	30	20
1929	364	280	84
1930	147	117	30

Colliery Management (prior to 1955)

Seams Worked:

1914 - Ten Quarters, Thirty Inch, Yard

1921 - Rattler, Ten Quarter, Thirty Inch, Yard

1923 - Little Main, Metal Band, Ten Quarter, Thirty Inch, Yard Band

1924 - Little Main, Metal Band, Ten Quarter, Thirty Inch, Yard Band

1925 - Little Main, Metal Band, Ten Quarter, Thirty Inch, Yard Band

1927 - Yard Band

1929 - Metal Band, Thirty Inch, Yard Band

1930 - Metal Band, Thirty Inch, Yard Band

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Oughterside Colliery

Notes:

1930, 13 Aug - Ten Quarters, Rattler seams abandoned

1930, 15 Dec - Little Main seam abandoned

1932 - Yard, Thirty Inch, Master seams abandoned

1933, 24 Jun - Ten Quarters, Rattler, Metal, Thirty Inch, Yard seams abandoned

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Oughterside Colliery

None found.

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

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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Hodgson, Isaac, 07 Apr 1908, aged 27, Shot firer and Shiftman, struck by material projected from shot

Nicholson, Arthur, 17 May 1914, (accident: 30 Jan 1914), aged 43, Hewer, Deceased was engaged setting a prop under a stone, when the prop slipped out and the stone fell on to him. He died on 17th May, 1914.

2 names found

1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672)
1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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.
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.



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