Branthwaite Colliery
| Location: |
Branthwaite
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
1921 |
| Owners: |
1900s - Branthwaite Colliery Co. |
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1920s - United Steel Cos. Ltd., (Workington Iron & Steel Branch) |
| Output: |
1900 - Coal: Household. |
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1902 - Coal: Household. Fireclay. |
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1910 - Coal: Household. Ganister. Fireclay. |
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1915 - Coal: Household. Ganister. Fireclay. |
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1921 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. |
| Employment: |
1900 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface) |
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1902 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface) |
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1905 - 10 (7 below, 3 surface) |
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1910 - 12 (9 below, 3 surface) |
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1915 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface) |
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1921 - 20 (16 below, 4 surface) |
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 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: |
1915 - Fireclay |
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1921 - Six Quarters |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Branthwaite Colliery |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
| | |  | |  | | Whitehead, Thomas, 08 Jun 1852, aged 37, killed by a fall of roof, left a wife and five children |
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1 name found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
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