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	Belmont (Ironstone)	Index	Belmont (Ironstone)

Location:	Guisbrough 9½ miles [15 km] ESE of Middlesbrough
Map Ref:	(Sheet 94) NZ617143, 54° 31' 12" N, 1° 2' 48" W
Opened:	1853
Closed:	1933
Owners:	1880s - Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd.
	1900s - Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd.
	1929, 01 Nov - Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1865 - Ironstone.
	1873 - Ironstone.
	1882 - Ironstone.
	1883 - Ironstone.
	1884 - Ironstone.
	1910 - Ironstone.
	1921 - Ironstone.
	1923 - Ironstone.
	1924 - Ironstone.
	1925 - Ironstone.
	1927 - Ironstone.
	1929 - Ironstone.
	1930 - Ironstone.
Employment:	Year  Pit   Total  Below  Above 1883 157 157 1883 Standing 1910 268 220 48 1915 295 246 49 1921 463 376 87 1923 11 11 1924 7 6 1 1925 10 10 1927 8 8 1929 4 4 1929 Idle 1930 7 7 1930 Idle
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Belmont (Ironstone)
Notes:	1886 - Abandoned

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!

						Gardner, William, 15 Sep 1875, aged 14, Coupling Tubs, crushed by tubs
						Watson, William, 23 Sep 1911, aged 33, Miner, he was working in a wall 14 feet wide along with another miner, and when in the act of filling a waggon was killed by a fall of dogger and sulphur; along the centre of the working there was a slight dislocation of 10 inches and the roof was entirely unsupported for a distance of 17 feet back from the face; a shot had been fired in the bottom stone only 20 minutes before and the roof had not been examined afterwards; the roof was damp and sufficient care was not exercised examining it, and timber should have been set nearer the face as the presence of the fault was well known
						Wilson, John, 28 Mar 1871, he was "filling calcine" when a large quantity of the stone fell upon him
						Young, Charles, 03 Feb 1911, (accident: 01 Feb 1911), aged 43, Miner, he was killed by a fall of roof (sulphur and dogger), 5 inches thick, which fell away from slips; this accident took place in a whole working near the outcrop, where the roof stone would be likely to be treacherous; the seam was only 6 feet thick, and props could be set or re-set with ease; the roof fell over a space of 17 feet by 14 feet, and it was bad judgment to expose such a large area without sufficient support; he died two days later
						4 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Belmont (Ironstone)

Credits

Sources:

Related Links:

	On this site
	Newspaper articles
	Article on the discovery of Ironstone in Cleveland (published in 1857)
	External sites
	Cleveland Ironstone Mines web site by Peter Tuffs

Further Reading:

• The Cleveland Ironstone Industry and its Impact on Teesside by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Ironstone Mines and Iron Industry by Richard Mead, published by Peter Tuffs
• The Ironstone Mines and Railways of Cleveland and Rosedale by T.E. Rounthwaite, published by Peter Tuffs
• The Coal Mining and Ironstone Mining Properties of Dorman Long, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Mining Incidents by Simon Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Ironstone by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines by Peter Tuffs, Cleveland Ironstone Series, published by Peter Tuffs

Further Research:

  Research Notes for Belmont (Ironstone)