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Bigge's Main Colliery
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| Location: | Wallsend 3 miles [5 km] NE of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ286670, 54° 59' 49" N, 1° 33' 6" W |
| Maps: |  1807 map from "The Picture of Newcastle Upon Tyne…", published in 1807 by D. Akenhead |
| 1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
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| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Pits: | A Pit |
| Shaft details for Bigge's Main Colliery |
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| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| Employment: | 1843 - 489 [inc. Heaton] |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bigge's Main Colliery |
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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!
 | Best, Stephen, 08 Jun 1856, boiler explosion [More information ...] | |||||
| Kent, Archibold, 11 Jun 1864, aged 19, fireman, killed by the boiler exploding | |||||
| Summerson, John, 29 Dec 1839, aged 60, brother of William and Robert [More information ...] | |||||
| Summerson, Robert, 29 Dec 1839, aged 58, brother of John and William [More information ...] | |||||
| Summerson, William, 29 Dec 1839, aged 60, brother of John and Robert [More information ...] | |||||
| 5 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.
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next to the name to see the web page.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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| 30 Mar 1853 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| 20 Jul 1854 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | Boiler bursting |
| 20 Mar 1856 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of coal |
| 06 Jul 1857 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of stone |
| 06 Sep 1865 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | waggonway, run over by waggons |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Bigge's Main Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bigge's Main Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- A History of Coal, Coke, Coalfields and Iron Manufacture in Northern England by William Fordyce published in 1860
- 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
- Contributions by members of the Public
- 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.
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Bigge's Main Colliery
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