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Bishop Middleham Colliery
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| Location: | Bishop Middleham 8 miles [13 km] SSE of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 93) NZ336312, 54° 40' 30" N, 1° 28' 40" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| 1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
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| Opened: | 1846 |
| Closed: | 1936 |
| Sinking Started: | 25 Mar 1846 |
| Pits: | Shaft details for Bishop Middleham Colliery |
| Owners: | 1880s - Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd. |
| 1923, Apr - Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1930 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1880 - 0 [Standing] |
| 1882 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1883 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1929 - 31 (18 below, 13 surface) | |
| 1930 - 7 | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1929 - Busty, Harvey |
| 1930 - Busty, Harvey | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bishop Middleham Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1845 - Bishop Middleham Colliery was won. |
1846 - Bishop Middleham Pit was sunk. |
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1876 - Five Quarter and Main Coal seam 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!
 | Livett, Martin, 25 Nov 1929, aged 45, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone, address: Front Street, Tudhoe Colliery [More information ...] | |||||
 | | Spence, Joseph, 06 Mar 1930, (accident: 02 Mar 1930, 11:35 p.m.), aged 24, explosion of firedamp, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor [More information ...] | ||||
| 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.
Those names marked with ,
were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have
images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque.
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next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
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next to the name to see the web page.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Bishop Middleham Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bishop Middleham Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1930 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
- Headstone(s) in Merrington Lane Cemetery, Spennymoor
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- 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.
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Related Links:
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Further Reading:
- The Coal Mining and Ironstone Mining Properties of Dorman Long, published by Peter Tuffs
Further Research:
Research Notes for Bishop Middleham Colliery
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