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Bishop's Close Colliery
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| Location: | Spennymoor 6 miles [10 km] SSW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 93) NZ235335, 54° 41' 48" N, 1° 38' 4" W |
| Opened: | 1860 |
| Closed: | 01 May 1909 |
| Sinking Started: | 29 Mar 1859 |
| Pits: |  Shaft details for Bishop's Close Colliery |
| Owners: | 1860s - Weardale Iron & Coal Co. |
| 1880s - Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. | |
| 1900s - Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| 1894 - Coal. | |
| 1905 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1880 - 0 [Standing] |
| 1882 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1883 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1884 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1888 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1894 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1896 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1900 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1902 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1905 - 0 [Not worked] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bishop's Close Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1857 - Boring operations from the surface were in progress on Bishop Close Farm, Old Park |
1859 - Bishop Close Pit sunk from the surface to the Main Coal Seam. |
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1909 - Five Quarter, Hutton, Brockwell seams 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!
 | Davis, John, 07 Jan 1873, aged 25, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Hutton, Thomas, 26 Jun 1866, aged 40, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Knox, John, 17 Jul 1867, aged 63, Deputy, fall of stone while drawing a jud | |||||
| Liddle, William, 12 Jul 1861, aged 10, Door Keeper, crushed by three full tubs | |||||
| Pinkney, John, 14 Jan 1860, aged 29, Sinker, stone from a shot | |||||
| Rowley, Richard, 11 Jan 1871, aged 48, Fireman, fell off heapstead | |||||
| Wilson, Richard, 07 Nov 1919, aged 28, Buried: St. James' Churchyard, Coundon | |||||
| 7 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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Bishop's Close Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bishop's Close Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1861 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1866 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1867 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 1905 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
- Headstone(s) in St. James' Churchyard, Coundon
- 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
- Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Bishop's Close Colliery
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