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Cocken Drift |
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Cocken Drift
also known as Harbour House Drift
| Location: |
Low Cocken, Chester-le-Street
3 miles [5 km] NNE of Durham
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 88) NZ283472, 54° 49' 8" N, 1° 33' 34" W |
| Maps: |
 1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
Apr 1957 |
| Owners: |
???? - Finchale Coal Co. Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1944 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. |
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1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household. (40,000 tons) |
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1948 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. |
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1949 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1950 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. |
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1951 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1952 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1953 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1954 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1955 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1956 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1957 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
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1958 - Coal: Household, Steam. |
| Employment: |
| Year | Pit | Total |  | Below | Above |
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| 1944 | | 176 |   | 134 | 42 |
| 1947 | | 170 | | 120 | 50 |
| 1948 | | 289 | | 225 | 64 |
| 1949 | | 283 | | 225 | 58 |
| 1950 | | 363 | | 311 | 52 |
| 1951 | | 283 | | 225 | 58 |
| 1952 | | 283 | | 225 | 58 |
| 1953 | | 247 | | 206 | 41 |
| 1954 | | 247 | | 206 | 41 |
| 1955 | | 107 | | 84 | 23 |
| 1956 | | 87 | | 67 | 20 |
| 1957 | | 87 | | 67 | 20 |
| 1958 | | 87 | | 67 | 20 |
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NCB Employment Figures
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Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: |
1944 - Brass Thill |
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1948 - Brass Thill |
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1949 - Brass Thill |
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1950 - Brass Thill |
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1951 - Brass Thill |
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1952 - Brass Thill |
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1953 - Brass Thill |
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1954 - Brass Thill |
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1955 - Brass Thill |
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1956 - Brass Thill |
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1957 - Brass Thill |
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1958 - Brass Thill |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Cocken Drift |
| Notes: |
1883 - Low Main and Hutton seam 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!
| | |  | | | | Buckham, Roger, 27 Sep 1847, aged 8, on attempting to get on one of a train of ten waggons which were proceeding along the railway he was thrown down, and the two last passing over him, broke his left thigh and arm. He was taken home immediately by the waggon-rider, where he died the same evening |
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1 name found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Cocken Drift
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Cocken Drift
Credits
Sources:
- 1944 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1953 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1956 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1957 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1958 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
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