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Picktree Colliery


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Location:
Map Ref:
Opened: bef. 1794
Closed:
Owners: 1750's - Mrs. Jane Marley
Notes:

1750 - Boring operations from the surface were in progress on the Picktree estate, in the township of Harraton, proving the Maudlin and Hutton Seams

1752 - A boring from the surface was put down by Mr. George Rawlings on the Picktree estate belonging to Mrs. Jane Marley, proving the Hutton Seam


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Description


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Disasters (5 or more killed)

  9th Jun 1794  Explosion, 30 lives lost (Show Names)

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Names of those killed at this colliery

No names found.

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


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Credits

Sources:

  • Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.

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