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Belmont Colliery
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| Location: | Pittington 3½ miles [5 km] ENE of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ318453, 54° 48' 6" N, 1° 30' 15" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | 1836 |
| Closed: | Bef. 1872 |
| Pits: | Church Pit, closed: 1872? |
| Furnace Pit, closed: 1872? | |
| Shaft details for Furnace Pit |
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| Shaft details for Belmont Colliery |
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| Owners: | 1830s - William Bell |
| 1850s - Messrs. Bell & Partners | |
| 1860s - C. & W. Bell | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Belmont Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1836, Sep - The first cargo of coal from Belmont, a colliery lately won, belonging to William Bell and Co., was shipped by the Durham and Sunderland railway on board the Sunderland packet. |
1840 - Belmont Colliery Furnace Pit sunk. |
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1856, Aug 04 - Belmont Colliery commenced to sink below the Hutton Seam. |
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1857 - Boring operations from the surface were in progress at Belmont Colliery. |
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1885 - Hutton, Low Main 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!
 |  | Bamborough, Matthew, 10 Dec 1842, aged 46, Deputy Overman, A few days ago had gone to see two men who were at work there, and whist standing talking to them a large stone fell from the roof and crushed him. He was taken home and died on 10 December | ||||
| Cowey, John, 05 Feb 1866, aged 23, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Crook, John, 14 Sep 1838, aged 9, Trapper, run over by rolley | |||||
| | Drummond, John, 26 Jul 1854, aged 49, he had got out of the cage in the Low Main shaft then taken a light and was about to enter the workings when he stumbled on a railway plate and plunged 16 fathoms to his death | ||||
| Mordue/Murdy, Thomas, 24 Aug 1838, aged 40, Pitman, accidentally fell out of the cage whilst desdcending the pit | |||||
| | Nottingham, Benjamin, 12 Jul 1844, aged 14, Waggon man, Benjamin Nottingham, aged 14, a waggon-man at Belmont Colliery was killed on Friday, 12 July while walking with his horse at the engine flat in the process of taking some full waggons to the shaft. One of his partners called to him but received no reply, and after a search found him lying across the rails with his head crushed between the wheel of the first waggon and the water pipes | ||||
| 6 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.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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| 18 Oct 1855 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | fell down shaft |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Belmont Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Belmont Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1866 Mines Inspectors Report
- Contributions by members of the Public
- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
- 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.
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Belmont Colliery
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