	Coanwood Colliery	Index	Coanwood Colliery

Coanwood Colliery

Location:	Coanwood, Haltwhistle 8 miles [13 km] NNW of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 86, 87) NY681590, 54° 55' 29" N, 2° 29' 52" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1860s - Wilson & Crawhall
	1880s - Coanwood Coal Co.
	1930s - F. G. Herdman & Co.
Output:	1865 - Coal.
	1882 - Coal.
	1883 - Coal.
	1888 - Coal.
	1890 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal: Coking.
	1896 - Coal: Coking.
	1900 - Coal: Coking.
	1902 - Coal: Coking.
	1910 - Coal.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1930 - Coal.
Employment:	1894 - 95 (53 below, 42 surface)
	1896 - 40 (12 below, 28 surface)
	1900 - 17 (12 below, 5 surface)
	1902 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface)
	1910 - 49 (22 below, 27 surface)
	1915 - 64 (40 below, 24 surface) [Five Quarter. Abandoned]
	1930 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Coom Roof, Five Quarter, Yard
	1915 - Yard [Five Quarter. Abandoned. Plans to H.O. 27.3.15.]
	1930 - Slag
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Coanwood Colliery
Notes:	1873 - Abandoned
	1892 - Herdley Bank Pit - Five Quarters seam abandoned - coal exhausted
	1894 - Herdley Bank Pit - Slag, Yard Seams - Workings drowned out by stoppage of pumps at adjoining colliery. Coal almost exhausted
	1900 - Cannel seam abandoned - coal exhausted
	1910 - Yard seam abandoned
	1913 - Coom Roof seam abandoned - coal exhausted
	1914 - Five Quarter seam abandoned
	1918 - Yard 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!

						Clay, George, 19 Apr 1920, (accident: 19 Dec 1919), aged 70, Miner
						Nixon, Thomas, 10 May 1894, 9:00 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 55, Hewer, Deceased and another man were engaged in driving a drift into the hill side, and had got about 8 yards in ; 6-inch baulks were set every 2 feet and polling driven in advance. They had got ready for another baulk, when the innermost one reeled out, and the place came in for about 4 yards from the face, burying the men. The weight of the loose ground above on the front end of the polling had evidently pressed the latter down, and so forced the baulk out [Inspection made & inquest attended]
						Reay, William, 18 Feb 1867, aged 13, Putter, crushed by tubs
						Scott, Thomas, 26 May 1893, 4:00 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 22, Hewer, Deceased was hewing, and in doing so exposed a "back" which ran up into the roof, when the stone suddenly came away to a feather edge, and breaking a plank under it. The deputy was in the place at the time, but did not intend to set any more timber [Inspection made & inquest attended]
						Storey, George, 02 Feb 1877, aged 16, Putter, fall of roof ; tub got off the way and knocked a prop out
						Thompson, W., 19 Mar 1872, aged 16, Driver, crushed between tubs

						6 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Ray Ditchburn from his research into fatalities in Northumberland and are marked with .

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Coanwood Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Coanwood Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1867 Mines Inspectors Report
1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), Northumberland, North Durham, and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1893 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7339), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Contributions from Ray Ditchburn from his research into mining fatalities in Northumberland
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1869 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works