West Durham Wallsend Colliery

Location:	Shildon 10½ miles [17 km] SSW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 93) NZ216264, 54° 37' 56" N, 1° 39' 55" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1890's - West Durham Wallsend Coal Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
	1902 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
Employment:	1896 - 52 (42 below, 10 surface)
	1902 - 321 (284 below, 37 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for West Durham Wallsend Colliery

Description

None found.

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

						Caygill, John, 26 Jul 1904, aged 14, Rapper and Telephone Boy, he had come out of his telephone cabin by the side of the engine plane without a light and fell over the hauling rope, and was carried and fatally crushed against a sheave stand, he had a lamp in the cabin

						1 name 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.

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of West Durham Wallsend Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to West Durham Wallsend Colliery

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.
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)



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