	Andrews House Colliery	Index	Andrews House Colliery

Andrews House Colliery

Location:

Whickham
5 miles [8 km] SW of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ205571, 54° 54' 30" N, 1° 40' 44" W

Maps:

1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

1840

Closed:

Dec 1920

First Coal:

20 Jun 1840

Pits:

South Pit, sinking: 26 Oct 1840

Shaft details for South Pit

Owners:

1843 - John Bowes & Partners

1850s - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer)

1860s - Marley Hill Coal Co.

1880s - John Bowes & Partners

1890s - John Bowes & Partners Ltd.

Output:

1855 - Coal.

1860 - Coal.

1865 - Coal.

1882 - Coal.

1883 - Coal.

1888 - Coal.

1890 - Coal.

1894 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1896 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1900 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1902 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1905 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1910 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1915 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

1921 - Coal: Coking, Gas.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1854	Working
1894	181	141	40
1896	187	148	39
1900	172	133	39
1902	177	140	37
1905	194	160	34
1910	262	213	49
1915	162	120	42
1921	39	23	16
1921	Abandoned

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Brass Thill, Hutton, Main Coal

1910 - Hutton, Main Coal

1915 - Hutton, Main Coal

1921 - Hutton, Main Coal [Abandoned]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Andrews House Colliery

Notes:

1840 - Andrews House Colliery commenced shipping coals at Shields.

1840, Oct 28 - A boring was put down below the Hutton Seam at Andrews House South Pit on 26 October.

Description

There are now three large collieries in this parish worked by John Bowes & Partners, Limited. At Marley Hill the following seams are worked :- Main Coal, 4 feet thick, at a depth of 35 fathoms ; the Busty, 5 feet 6 inches, 72 fathoms ; and the Brockwell, 3 feet, 86 fathoms, worked by two shafts. The average daily output is about 700 tons. There are 330 coke ovens, in which two thirds of the output is converted into coke. The total number of men and boys employed is about 520. Nearly one mile west is the Byermoor Colliery, working the Busty and Brockwell seams, having and output of 500 tons per day. Here are 156 coke ovens ; the number employed is 380. Andrews House Colliery, situated about one mile south of Marley Hill, was commenced in 1843 ; here the Main coal is only worked, giving employment to 170 men and boys ; the output averages 340 tons per day.

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham

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!

						Anderson, Michael, 10 Feb 1863, aged 46, Michael Anderson and another miner were taking out a stook in the broken mine, the stone and coal gave way, and fell over Anderson, whose body was not extracted until after an interval of nine and a half hours; the other man escaped injury
						Bambridge, James, 16 Nov 1891, 8:30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 52, Hewer, after holing into an old bord he neglected to set a prop as directed by the deputy and a stone fell on to him and killed him [Inquest attended]
						Brown, John, 29 Jul 1890, aged 50, Waggonman, foot caught in a switch and waggons ran over it
						Gray, William, 05 Mar 1895, aged 60, while employed in clearing the ashpits he fell from his loaded cart on to his head, and died within 15 minutes [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]
						Jackson, James, 22 Feb 1895, 3:45 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 24, Hewer, a fall of stone at a place considered to be safe, occurred on the engine plane and caught deceased as he was going from his work, Buried: Sacred Heart Churchyard, Byermoor
						Lee, Isaac, 19 Jan 1869, aged 22, Onsetter, falling off top of cage [More information ...]
						Mitchell, James, 03 Oct 1877, aged 49, Switch Keeper, crushed by tubs on an incline plane - it is supposed he inadvertently placed the switches for the wrong way
						Nesbit, James, 11 Jan 1861, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone
						Oates, George, 31 Jan 1902, aged 50, Shifter, died suddenly in pit from heart disease, no inquest held

						9 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.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date							Inspectors Remarks
02 Aug 1856	1	–	–	–	–	1	fell out of cage
23 Apr 1862	–	–	–	–	1	1	waggon at screens

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Andrews House Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Andrews House Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), Northumberland, North Durham and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Newcastle District (No. 3) by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1891 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6625), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume A-B, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1878
Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
Contributions by members of the Public
Headstone(s) in Sacred Heart Churchyard, Byermoor
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1860 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1869 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.

Pictures:

Colliery picture from old postcard

Further Research:

Research Notes for Andrews House Colliery

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