Ravensworth Betty Colliery

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Names of those killed at this colliery

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also known as Betty Pit

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Location:	Lamesley 4 miles [6 km] S of Newcastle
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ258578, 54° 54' 54" N, 1° 35' 46" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Meadow Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ262581
	Shaft details for Ravensworth Betty Colliery
Owners:	1890's - Charles Perkins & Partners
	1910's - Birtley Iron Co.
	1920's - Pelaw Main Collieries Co.
	1920's - Pelaw Main Collieries Co. Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1896 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1902 - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1914 - Coal: Gas, Steam. Fireclay.
	1921 - Betty/Shop - Coal: Gas, Steam.
	1930 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Household, Industrial. (30,000 tons)
	1950 - Betty/Ann - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Industrial, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1951 - Betty/Ann - Coal: Coking, Gas.
	1955 - Betty/Ann - Coal: Coking, Gas.
Employment:	1896 - 585 (449 below, 136 surface)
	1902 - 585 (489 below, 96 surface)
	1914 - 878 (692 below, 186 surface)
	1921 - Betty/Shop - 1,570 (1,234 below, 336 surface) [inc. Shop]
	1930 - 475 (345 below, 130 surface)
	1940 - 442 (340 below, 102 surface)
	1945 - Betty/Ann - 1,083 (848 below, 235 surface) [inc. Ann]
	1947 - 92 (67 below, 25 surface)
	1950 - Betty/Ann - 1,345 (1,017 below, 328 surface) [inc. Ann]
	1951 - Betty/Ann - 1,228 (1,001 below, 227 surface) [inc. Ann]
	1952 - Betty - 150 (121 below, 29 surface)
	1955 - Betty/Ann - 1,068 (887 below, 181 surface) [inc. Ann]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked:	1914 - High Main, Low Main, Maudlin, Six Quarter, Yard
	1921 - Betty/Shop - Beaumont, High Main, Hutton, Low Main, Maudlin, Six Quarter, Tilley, Yard
	1930 - Busty, Five Quarter, Hutton, Low Main, Maudlin, Six Quarter, Towneley
	1950 - Betty/Ann - Bottom Busty, Five Quarter, Metal, Three Quarter, Top Busty, Towneley
	1951 - Betty/Ann - Five Quarter, Metal, Three Quarter, Top Busty, Towneley
	1955 - Betty/Ann - Busty, Five Quarter, High Main, Metal, Three Quarter, Towneley
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Ravensworth Betty Colliery
Notes:	1950 - Bottom Busty seam discontinued
	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Ravensworth Betty Colliery

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1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1913 Mines Inspectors Report
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)
1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1921 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
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
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
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910

Austin, Terence, 25 Jan 1913, aged 19, Putter, deceased after taking a tub to the face told the hewer that his pony had very nearly killed him; he then became unconscious and died the same day from a fractured spine; the roads were in good working order, and the cause of the accident unknown

Reed, Thomas, 13 Jun 1914, aged 30, Screener, deceased was standing for the purpose of signalling on the inside of a curve on an occasionally used siding worked by a stationary engine and rope to which a set of railway wagons was attached; he was close to one of three large "drum" sheaves used to bind the rope on the curve, but the rope was off the middle one; on starting the load up the hill the rope carried away the frame work of the sheave, and violently knocked the deceased over; the post of the framework of the sheave had been placed only 3½ feet down into "made" ground

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