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Whitehouse Colliery
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Witton Gilbert
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| Opened: |
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| Owners: |
1920's - Witton Gilbert Colliery Co. Ltd. |
| Output: |
1921 - Coal. |
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1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household. |
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1934 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1950 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1955 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1960 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
| Employment: |
1921 - 21 (18 below, 3 surface) |
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1925 - 25 (21 below, 4 surface) |
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1930 - 24 (20 below, 4 surface) |
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1934 - 31 (25 below, 6 surface) |
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1945 - 42 (35 below, 7 surface) |
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1950 - 45 (42 below, 3 surface) |
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1955 - 35 (30 below, 5 surface) |
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1960 - 35 (30 below, 5 surface) |
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 Colliery Management (prior to 1958)
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| Seams Worked: |
1921 - Low Main |
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1925 - Low Main |
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1930 - Harvey |
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1934 - Hutton, Low Main |
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1950 - Low Main |
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1955 - Low Main |
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1960 - Low Main |
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!
| | | | |  | | Ryan, John, 30 Oct 1944, (accident: 20 Jan 1944), aged 35, Hewer, he was hewing in the headways when deputy George Simpson walked by and heard a small fall of stone, he found Ryan in a sitting position with his head pinned down by a stone about 4 feet long and 15 inches thick, he was released and taken out on a stretcher; he died at Durham County Hospital, due to exhaustion and toxaemia caused by a severed spinal cord |
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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.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
Credits
Sources:
- 1921 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
- 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
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