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  West Bitchburn Colliery  Index  West Bitchburn Colliery  

West Bitchburn Colliery

also known as West Beechburn Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Howden-le-Wear
Map Ref:
Maps: 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Opened:
Closed: 12 Apr 1926
Pits:   Shaft details for West Bitchburn Colliery
Owners: 1860's - Thomas Snowden
1880's - C. W. & T. Snowdon
1910's - West Beechburn Coal & Whinstone Co. Ltd.
Output: 1873 - Coal.
1914 - Coal.
1921 - Coal.
1923 - Coal: Steam.
1924 - Coal: Steam.
1925 - Coal: Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  Total Below Above
1914766412
192111610214
192312711116
19241069313
1925Abandoned
  Colliery Management (prior to 1958)
Seams Worked: 1914 - Victoria
1921 - Victoria
1923 - Marshall Green, Victoria
1924 - Marshall Green, Victoria
1925 - Marshall Green, Victoria [Abandoned]
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for West Bitchburn Colliery
Notes:

1886 - Brockwell seam abandoned

1926 - Victoria, Marshall Green seams 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!

      

Parkin, George, 09 Dec 1870, aged 20, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

     

Pearson, Thomas, 22 Jan 1918, aged 18, Driver, killed through being caught under a fall of stone

 
  2 names 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 extracted from material deposited at the North East England Mining Archive and Research Centre (NEEMARC) — principally the records of the Durham Miners' Association and are marked with .


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124)
  • 1873-4 List of Mines
  • 1880 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1884 List of Mines
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
  • 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
  • NEEMARC - Ref: NUMDA/1/6/43, D.M.A. Minutes, Circulars etc. for 1918 (two volumes: covers Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec)

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