| Date: | 1710 |
| Colliery: | Bensham |
| Cause: | Explosion |
| Lives Lost: | 70 to 80 |
About this year Bensham colliery exploded, by which lamentable catastrophe, between seventy and eighty human beings lost their lives. At this colliery the first attempt was made to work the low main seam of coal in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.
| Source: | Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844. |
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