Byron Colliery

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Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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	Byron Colliery	Index	Byron Colliery

Location:	Edmondsley 5 miles [8 km] NNW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ238496, 54° 50' 26" N, 1° 37' 46" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
	1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
	1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Opened:	bef. 1857
Closed:
Owners:	1860s - Sowerby, Phillips & Co.
Output:	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	1873 - Coal.

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Atkinson, Thomas, 10 Nov 1866, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Paxton, Thomas, 06 Dec 1866, aged 22, Labourer, crushed by surface waggon

2 names found

1866 Mines Inspectors Report
1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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.