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Tees Hetton Colliery
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| Location: | Evenwood 12½ miles [20 km] SSW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 92) NZ161255, 54° 37' 27" N, 1° 45' 2" W |
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| Owners: | 1870's - T. Charlton & Co. |
| 1880's - Trustees of T. Charlton & Co. | |
| 1880's - Tees Hetton Coal Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1880 - 0 [Standing] |
| 1882 - 0 [Standing] | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Tees Hetton Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1894 - Brockwell seam abandoned - coal exhausted |
1894, 03 Jul - Five Quarter or Busty seam abandoned - The small quantity of coal left being too costly to work |
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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!
Coates, Thomas, 27 Jul 1884, (accident: 18 Jul 1884), aged 27, Joiner, severe injuries by falling from a gangway 21 ft. high | ||||||
Croudace, John, 12 Dec 1886, (accident: 11 Dec 1886), aged 39, Hewer, severe internal sprain while lifting a tub onto the rails | ||||||
Curry, George, 30 Nov 1876, aged 31, Stoneman, fall of stone while repairing a drift, stone came off at a slip | ||||||
Robson, Thomas, 01 Oct 1886, aged 14, Screen Boy, crushed between two trucks, he was riding on a full truck where he had no business | ||||||
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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 Tees Hetton Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Tees Hetton Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1873-4 List of Mines
- 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1734)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 1884 List of Mines
- 1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429)
- 1886 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5090)
- 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
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Related Links:
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Further Reading:
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3, provides a brief history of the colliery along with the history of the associated Miners Lodge Banner
Further Research:
Research Notes for Tees Hetton Colliery
