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Prior Drift |
Index |
Prior Drift |
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| Location: |
Midgeholme
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
1948 |
| Owners: |
1940's - Naworth Collieries Co. Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1923 - Coal: Coking, Household. |
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1924 - Coal: Household. |
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1925 - Coal: Household. |
| Employment: |
1923 - 8 (6 below, 2 surface) |
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1924 - 55 (41 below, 14 surface) |
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1925 - 0 [Abandoned 1925] |
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1945 - 12 (10 below, 2 surface) |
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1947 - 5 |
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 Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: |
1923 - Wellsyke |
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1924 - Wellsyke |
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1925 - Wellsyke [Abandoned 1925] |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Prior Drift |
| Notes: |
1926 - Wellsyke seam abandoned |
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1947 - Cannel, Slag seams abandoned |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
Credits
Sources:
- 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.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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