	Bearl Quarry	Index	Bearl Quarry

Bearl Quarry

Location:	Ovington 7½ miles [12 km] E of Hexham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 87, OL42) NZ053641, 54° 58' 17" N, 1° 55' 2" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - Robert Patterson & Son
	1980s - Bearl Natural Stone Co.
Output:	1896 - Sandstone.
	1897 - Sandstone.
	1905 - Sandstone.
	1922 - Sandstone.
	1984 - Sandstone.
Employment:	1896 - 34 (5 below, 29 surface)
	1897 - 34 (5 below, 29 surface)
	1905 - 34 (6 below, 28 surface)
	1922 - 23 (2 below, 21 surface)

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!

						Miller, Lisle, 24 Dec 1895, (accident: 20 Nov 1895, 10:00 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 32, Labourer, he was engaged taking off "bearing," I.e. removing the surface soil from the top of the rock, and had five or six years experience at this class of work; there was plenty of room at the point where he was working, but he seems to have inadvertently stepped too near the edge of the quarry, and he fell over, a distance of 24 feet

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bearl Quarry

Credits

Sources:

1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
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
1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey