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  Shield Row Drift  Index  Shield Row Drift  

Shield Row Drift


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Sacriston
4 miles [6 km] NW of Durham
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ234475, 54° 49' 18" N, 1° 38' 9" W
Opened: 1845
Closed: May 1947
Owners: 1880's - R. Dickinson & Co.
1940's - Bearpark Coal & Coke Co. Ltd.
Output: 1902 - Shield Row - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing.
1914 - Shield Row - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. Fireclay.
1921 - Shield Row - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
1930 - Shield Row - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (40,000 tons)
1948 - Coal: Steam.
1950 - Shield Row - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1950 - Coal: Coking.
1950 - Coal: Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
1902Shield Row13611917
1914Shield Row22917653
1921Shield Row28921970
1930Shield Row29921188
194021016050
1945Shield Row1429745
194535287
Total17712552
19471379740
194877
1948392910
Total463610
1950Shield RowAbandoned 8/48
1950Abandoned 7/49
Total0
  NCB Employment Figures
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
Seams Worked: 1914 - Shield Row - Shield Row
1921 - Shield Row - Shield Row
1930 - Shield Row - Five Quarter, Main, Shield Row
1948 - Shield Row
1950 - Shield Row - Shield Row [Abandoned 8/48]
1950 - Shield Row
1950 - Shield Row [Abandoned 7/49]
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Shield Row Drift
Notes:

1948, Aug - Shield Row seam abandoned



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

     

Cousin, William, 17 Sep 1924, (accident: 09 Sep 1924), aged 17, Incline Attd., crushed, Buried: St. Andrew's Churchyard, Stanley

      

Holling, Archibald Edward, 07 Apr 1926, aged 23, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

      

Lock, James, 08 Jul 1858, aged 42, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

      

Rodham, Joseph, 24 Feb 1859, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

      

Scott, J., 25 Mar 1929, aged 47, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

     

Warne, William, 06 Jun 1901, aged 43, Hewer, While filling a tub he caught his side against a plank set with a prop at one end to support roof. He continued to work and filled three more tubs, but found he could do no more. It transpired he had broken a rib, which had caused haemorrhage from lung

 
  6 names found

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.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

For those names marked we have a digital photograph of the tombstone, see the information page for further details.


The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date Inspectors Remarks
18 Jul 1851 11
26 Aug 1853 11

  Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Shield Row Drift

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Shield Row Drift


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1858 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1859 Mines Inspectors Report
  • 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 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
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 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
  • 1948 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, 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

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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