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Brasside Colliery
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| Location: | Belmont, Durham 3 miles [5 km] NE of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ305458, 54° 48' 22" N, 1° 31' 32" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1924 |
| Pits: | Pumping Shaft, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ303459, sinking: May 1867 |
| Shaft details for Pumping Shaft |
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| Owners: | 1850s - Earl of Durham |
| 1910s - Brasside Colliery Co. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| 1923 - Coal: Steam. | |
| 1924 - Coal: Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1923 - 30 (26 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1924 - 33 (28 below, 5 surface) [Abandoned] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1923 - Low Main |
| 1924 - Low Main [Abandoned] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Brasside Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1867 - Pumping shaft, Brasside Colliery, sunk in May from the surface to the Hutton Seam. |
1883 - Hutton seam 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!
 | Davison, Thompson, 29 Oct 1876, (accident: 20 Oct 1876), aged 31, Horse Driver, severely crushed by waggons joining on surface | |||||
|  | Fagan, James, 12 Oct 1849, An inquest was held at the "Sign of the Artichokes", Framwellgate on Friday, 12 October into the death of James Fagan, who some time previously had been blasting coal in Brasside Colliery, when he "received such injuries as to cause his death." | ||||
| Maughan, William Robinson, 10 Apr 1879, aged 42, Horse Driver, fell before waggon and was run over while taking his horse off - he was shunting an empty waggon into a small coal heap | |||||
| Turnbull, John, 13 Oct 1851, aged 35, Waggon Rider, found dead under a coal waggon | |||||
| 4 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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| 20 Jul 1857 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of stone |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Brasside Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Brasside 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
- 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
- 1879 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2604) Where to find this report
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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.
- 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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Related Links:
None found
Further Research:
Research Notes for Brasside Colliery
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