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Ashes Quarry
| Location: |
Stanhope
16 miles [25 km] SSE of Hexham
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 92) NY995397, 54° 45' 8" N, 2° 0' 28" W |
| Opened: |
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| Owners: |
1920s - Consett Iron Co. Ltd. |
| Output: |
1896 - Limestone. |
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1897 - Limestone. |
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1905 - Limestone. |
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1922 - Limestone. |
| Employment: |
1896 - 125 (77 below, 48 surface) |
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1897 - 131 (77 below, 54 surface) |
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1905 - 129 (62 below, 67 surface) |
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1922 - 175 (158 below, 17 surface) |
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!
| | |  | | | | Coatsworth, George, 10 Apr 1909, (accident: 19 Mar 1909), aged 75, Blacksmith, Set fire to his shirt by blowing his fire when sitting on the smithy hearth. Died from the shock on April 10 [More information ...] |
| | | | | | | Elliott, Lexie, 23 Jul 1928, aged 24, Quarry Labourer, he was accidentally killed by being run over by a train after being knocked off the buffers on which he was riding by a baulk of timber falling from the roof of a tunnel, residence: The Square, Stanhope [Inquest: 25 Jul 1928] |
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2 names found |
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Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Quarries
- 1897 List of Quarries
- 1905 List of Quarries
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- Copy of Death Certificate of Lexie Elliott kindly provided by Paul Bootes
- Industrial Locomotives of Durham by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1977
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