	Bryan's Leap Colliery	Index	Bryan's Leap Colliery

Bryan's Leap Colliery

Location:

Rowlands Gill
6½ miles [10 km] SW of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ167580, 54° 54' 59" N, 1° 44' 22" W

Maps:

1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)

Opened:

Closed:

1950

Owners:

1930s - Barcus Close Coal Co. Ltd.

1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)

Output:

1935 - Coal: Manufacturing.

1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam. (30,000 tons)

1948 - 3/4 drift - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing.

1949 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.

1950 - 3/4 drift - Coal: Coking, Gas, Manufacturing.

1951 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.

1952 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Pit	Total	Below	Above
1935		51	40	11
1940		55	44	11
1945		Abandoned
1945	3/4 drift	65	57	8
	Total	65	57	8
1947		95	83	12
1948	3/4 drift	107	87	20
1949		120	105	15
1950	3/4 drift	142	124	18
1951		142	124	18
1952		142	124	18

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1935 - Hutton, Main

1948 - 3/4 drift - Three Quarter

1949 - Three Quarter

1950 - 3/4 drift - Three Quarter

1951 - Three Quarter

1952 - Three Quarter

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bryan's Leap Colliery

Notes:

1938, 12 May - Hutton seam abandoned

1945, Mar - Beaumont seam abandoned

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.

Names of those killed at this colliery

No names found.

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Bryan's Leap Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bryan's Leap Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.