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Brooms Drift

Location:	Hedley Hill 8½ miles [14 km] W of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ138414, 54° 46' 2" N, 1° 47' 8" W
Opened:
Closed:	1883
Owners:	1880s - Consett Iron Co. Ltd.
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	1873 - Coal.
Employment:	1883 - 55

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!

						Bruce, James, 09 Sep 1881, aged 59, Overman, while riding on a set of tubs between drift mouth and screens, his head was caught by a bridge, which knocked him off the tub and the set ran over him [More information ...]
						Caffrey, Michael, 01 Mar 1881, aged 9, School boy, he was trespassing on a tramway at Brooms Drift, he was run over by some tubs and killed [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]
						Gardner, John, 26 Feb 1876, aged 52, Collier, killed by fall of top stone while working in a broken jud
						Scott, Fenwick, 08 Jan 1868, aged 50, Rolleywayman, crushed by the first of a pony set of two full tubs against lying timber; switches wrong
						Sutherland, James, 09 Aug 1877, aged 14, Putter, head crushed by coming in between a crowntree and top of tub

						5 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Brooms Drift

Credits

Sources:

1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Durham District by Thomas Bell, 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)
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
Mineral Statistics for 1855 (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 1860 (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 1865 (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 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