Blackhouse Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

also known as Wash Houses Pit

Sources:

	Blackhouse Colliery	Index	Blackhouse Colliery

Location:

Birtley
5½ miles [9 km] SSE of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ280556, 54° 53' 40" N, 1° 33' 45" W

Opened:

1913

Closed:

May 1932

Pits:

Shaft details for Blackhouse Colliery

Owners:

1910s - Birtley Iron Co.

1920s - Pelaw Main Collieries Co.

1920s - Pelaw Main Collieries Co. Ltd.

Output:

1915 - Coal: Gas, Steam.

1921 - Coal: Gas, Steam.

1923 - Coal: Gas, Household.

1924 - Coal: Household.

1925 - Coal: Household.

1927 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.

1929 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1930 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1915	Standing
1921	123	88	35
1923	212	176	36
1924	276	227	49
1925	290	239	51
1925	Temporarily closed 19/06/25
1927	195	147	48
1929	169	129	40
1930	83	57	26

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1915 - Maudlin [Standing]

1921 - Main Coal, Maudlin

1923 - Main Coal, Maudlin

1924 - Main Coal, Maudlin

1925 - Main, Maudlin [Temporarily closed 19/06/25]

1927 - Main, Maudlin

1929 - Main, Maudlin

1930 - Main, Maudlin

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Blackhouse Colliery

Notes:

1914, Jul - Colliery closed

1920 - Colliery reopened

1930, 17 Jul - Towneley seam abandoned

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Blackhouse Colliery

None Found

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

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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 .

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Blackhouse Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Blackhouse Colliery

Elgy, Thomas Henry, 16 Oct 1927, aged 45, Stoneman, electrocuted [More information ...]

Forster, Joseph, 09 Feb 1923, aged 14, Hauler, crushed to death between two tubs

2 names found

1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910
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