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Seven Sisters Colliery |
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Seven Sisters Colliery |
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Seven Sisters Colliery
| Location: |
Cockfield
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
31 Jan 1925 |
| Owners: |
1890's - Walker & Bradley |
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1900's - Seven Sisters Colliery Co. Ltd. |
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1920's - Stirk & Dickinson |
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1920's - Stirk, Dickinson & Chapman |
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1924 - Thomas Stirk |
| Output: |
1896 - Coal: Household. |
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1902 - Coal: Household. |
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1921 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. |
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1923 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1924 - Coal: Steam. |
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1925 - Coal: Steam. |
| Employment: |
1902 - 40 (30 below, 10 surface) |
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1921 - 5 (3 below, 2 surface) |
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1923 - 12 (8 below, 4 surface) |
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1924 - 7 (4 below, 3 surface) [Temporarily closed] |
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1925 - 0 [Abandoned] |
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 Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: |
1921 - Main |
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1923 - Brockwell |
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1924 - Brockwell [Temporarily closed] |
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1925 - Brockwell [Abandoned] |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Seven Sisters Colliery |
| Notes: |
1925 - Brockwell seam abandoned |
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!
| | | | | | | Watson, John J., 31 Aug 1909, (accident: 25 Aug 1909), aged 17, Helper up, He was standing at the mouth of a level off an incline, on the outbye side of two full tubs. Two other tubs were being hauled up the incline from a lower level, and they got off the way and caught the first mentioned tubs. These latter fell on to the youth and he was severely injured, and died six days afterwards. He should not have been on, or near, the incline during the time a set was being hauled up |
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1 name found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177)
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 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
Related Links:
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 | Gaunless Valley History Trust |
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