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Park End Quarry |
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Park End Quarry |
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Park End Quarry
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18½ miles [29 km] SE of Alston
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 91, 92, OL31) NY923257, 54° 37' 35" N, 2° 7' 9" W |
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| Owners: |
1900's - Ord & Maddison Ltd. |
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1910's - Ord & Maddison |
| Output: |
1922 - Igneous rock. |
| Employment: |
1922 - 139 (114 below, 25 surface) |
| Notes: |
 Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Park End Quarry |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
| | | | | | | Bowron, Charles, 05 Nov 1912, aged 40, Meller, he was breaking and filling stone in the quarry bottom when he heard a large stone coming down the face; he was running to get clear when the stone, some four cwts. in weight, beat and broke on a large piece of stone in the quarry bottom and a fragment hit him in the right side; he died the same night from his injuries; the stone fell 44 feet on to an irregular benching, and then a further 20 feet into the quarry bottom; it came away from between natural joints; the face had been dressed down only a few days before; doubtless the vibration caused by some light shots fired in the vicinity had loosened the stone and caused it to fall half an hour after the last shot |
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1 name found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Park End Quarry
Credits
Sources:
- 1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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