Brandon Pit House Colliery

1950 - Main seam abandoned

Abson, George, 05 Jun 1929, aged 47, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Brandon Cemetery [More information ...]

Beattie, Hugh Bruce, 18 Jan 1955, aged 48, Stoneman, he was killed in a shot firing accident - Norman Ridley, 26, suffered chest injuries and shock

Beer, John Stanley, 26 Nov 1958, aged 46, Dumper Driver, he was found dead under a dumper at the colliery tip; it was thought he had driven his dumped too close to th edge and it had fallen over

Brown, Norman, 01 Mar 1929, aged 29, Fitter, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...]

Burn, Christopher, 05 Aug 1949, aged 48, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Craggs, John, 1957, aged 19, hit by strap [approximate date]

Crich, Thomas, 07 Oct 1935, (accident: 20 Aug 1935), a deputy in the 3rd South District found him in a breathless state and unable to speak; he then took him out to the ambulance; he died in Durham County Hospital; death was due to an abcess on his left lung as a result of being gassed in the Great War

Dodds, Thomas, 01 Aug 1933, aged 31, he was killed when a tub ran into hom and knocked him into the tippler, he was trespassin at the time of the accident; Dodds and others had been standing on the pit heap watching coals being tipped

Gibbon, Thomas Elliott, 18 Oct 1935, aged 48, Haulage Engineman, he was struck on the head by a descending cage in the Hutton Seam and fell 270 feet to the bottom of the shaft [More information ...]

Henderson, Andrew, 06 Apr 1955, aged 29, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Johnson, Ralph, 01 Mar 1929, aged 44, Fireman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...]

Lonsdale, Henry Bowers, 16 Apr 1957, aged 21, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Richardson, John, 14 Apr 1958, aged 47, Deputy, he was seriously injured by a fall of stone and died shortly after being admitted to Durham County Hospital, his funeral took place on 14 Apr 1958

Simpson, Thomas William, 15 Dec 1955, aged 19, Buried: Meadowfield Cemetery

Sutch, John, 07 May 1931, aged 48, Stoneman, having walked from his home at New Brancepeth to Brandon Pit House Colliery he found that the mine was idle. He had just begun the return journey accompanied by his son-in-law and a workmate when he was overtaken by a locomotive on the colliery railway, run over, and killed. The other two men had jumped to safety, but Sutch had failed to hear the locomotive approaching. It had been the custom for some time for all the men living at New Brancepeth to use the line as a short cut, Buried: Ushaw Moor Cemetery

Taylor, Thomas W., 01 Mar 1929, aged 58, Weighman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...]

Watson, Fred, 01 Mar 1929, aged 32, Winding Engineman, scalded in cabin of locomotive [More information ...]