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Addistone Quarry

Location:	Torver
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - Mandall's Slate Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Slate and Sandstone.
	1897 - Slate and sandstone.
	1905 - Roofing slate.
	1922 - Shale.
Employment:	1896 - 12 (6 below, 6 surface)
	1897 - 14 (6 below, 8 surface)
	1905 - 8 (5 below, 3 surface)
	1922 - 0 [Not worked during 1922]

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!

						Raven, William, Sep 1892, Quarryman, he was passing along the top of the quarry to his work when he slipped and fell a distance of 60 feet, being killed on the spot

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
1905 List of Quarries
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian