	Brown's House Quarry	Index	Brown's House Quarry

Brown's House Quarry

Location:	Frosterley 16½ miles [26 km] WSW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92, OL42) NZ021360, 54° 43' 8" N, 1° 58' 3" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1900s - Pease & Partners Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Limestone.
	1897 - Limestone.
	1905 - Limestone.
	1922 - Limestone.
Employment:	1896 - 56 (39 below, 17 surface)
	1897 - 67 (41 below, 26 surface)
	1905 - 15 (7 below, 8 surface)
	1922 - 20 [Worked occasionally, or only for a short portion of the year 1922]

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!

						Stephenson, Henry, 04 Feb 1900, (accident: 01 Feb 1900), aged 43, Quarryman, Burnt about thigh and groin by a powder shot exploding prematurely. Died on the 4th inst.

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Brown's House Quarry

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Brown's House Quarry

Credits

Sources:

1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Durham District (No. 4) by Ronald D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Quarries
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
Industrial Locomotives of Durham by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1977