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Stiddle Hill Colliery
also known as Ridsdale Colliery
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| Location: | Bellingham 13 miles [21 km] NNW of Hexham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 80, OL42) NY919853, 55° 9' 43" N, 2° 7' 36" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 29 Aug 1931 |
| Pits: | Engine Pit, locn: (Sheet 80, OL42) NY919840 |
 Shaft details for Engine Pit |
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| Foaly (Folly) Pit, locn: (Sheet 80, OL42) NY916839 | |
| Shaft details for Foaly (Folly) Pit |
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| Stiddle Hill Pit, sinking: Dec 1874 | |
| Shaft details for Stiddle Hill Pit |
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| Owners: | 1880's - William Mundle |
| 1890's - Edward Armstrong | |
| 1920's - Tyne Rede Mines Co. | |
| 1920's - Ernest Barker | |
| Output: | 1882 - Coal (Landsale). |
| 1888 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1890 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1914 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1921 - Coal. | |
| 1923 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1924 - Coal: Steam. | |
| 1925 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1927 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1929 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1930 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1914 - 10 (8 below, 2 surface) |
| 1921 - 13 (11 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1923 - 15 (12 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1924 - 18 (13 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1925 - 14 (10 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1927 - 11 (5 below, 6 surface) [Temporarily closed] | |
| 1930 - 5 (2 below, 3 surface) | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: | 1914 - Limestone Coal |
| 1921 - Limestone Coal | |
| 1923 - Fourlaws | |
| 1924 - Fourlaws | |
| 1925 - Fourlaws | |
| 1927 - Fourlaws [Temporarily closed] | |
| 1929 - Fourlaws | |
| 1930 - Fourlaws | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Stiddle Hill Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1894 - Thirty Inch seam abandoned - coal exhausted |
1931, 29 Aug - Fourlaws seam abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Todd, George, 02 Mar 1876, aged 56, Overman, crushed by a waggon on surface | ||||||
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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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Stiddle Hill Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Stiddle Hill Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1734)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 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.
- 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- 1929 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.
- 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
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