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Wylam Hills Colliery |
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Wylam Hills Colliery |
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Wylam Hills Colliery
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Wylam
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
1920's |
| Owners: |
1880's - W. Turnbull |
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1910's - North Wylam Colliery Co. Ltd. |
| Output: |
1882 - Coal (Landsale). |
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1914 - Coal. |
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1921 - Coal. |
| Employment: |
1914 - 58 (48 below, 10 surface) |
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1921 - 0 [Abandoned] |
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 Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
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| Seams Worked: |
1914 - Victoria |
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1921 - Brockwell, Victoria [Abandoned] |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Wylam Hills Colliery |
| Notes: |
1880 - 6/4, 5/4, Yard, Brockwell seams abandoned |
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1933, 12 Jan - Brockwell, Yard seams 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!
| | | | | | | Hall, Wilkinson, 01 Oct 1870, aged 20, Putter, crushed by tubs |
| | | | | | | Stephenson, John, 13 Jun 1913, aged 30, Carpenter, deceased was engaged in re-opening an old shaft; in order to hang a plumb line, he placed a 3-inch plank upon the walling across the middle of the shaft and over it, and at right angles a 1¼-inch plank; the latter overhung the former by 2 feet at one end; deceased turned around and thoughtlessly stepped back upon the unsupported end of the plank, which tipped up and allowed him to fall to the shaft bottom 48 feet below; he struck the shaft side and was killed |
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2 names found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
Credits
Sources:
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124)
- 1880 List of Mines
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
- 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.
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
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