Blaxter Quarry (Freestone)

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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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	Blaxter Quarry (Freestone)	Index	Blaxter Quarry (Freestone)

Location:	Elsdon 16 miles [26 km] NNW of Hexham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 80) NY933901, 55° 12' 18" N, 2° 6' 19" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1910s - Blaxter Quarries Ltd.
	1980s - Natural Stone Quarries Ltd.
Output:	1897 - Sandstone.
	1905 - Sandstone.
	1922 - Sandstone.
	1984 - Sandstone.
Employment:	1897 - 8 (7 below, 1 surface)
	1905 - 47 (42 below, 5 surface)
	1922 - 31

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Diggle, James, 17 Nov 1916, aged 50, [details unknown]

Richardson, Robert, 22 Jul 1910, aged 37, Wagon loader, Fell between wagons drawn by locomotive

2 names found

1897 List of Quarries
1905 List of Quarries
1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey
Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983