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Chirm Colliery
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| Location: | Longhorsley 12½ miles [20 km] SSW of Alnwick |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 81) NZ093960, 55° 15' 29" N, 1° 51' 10" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | May 1927 |
| Pits: | Plough Pit |
| Shaft details for Plough Pit |
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| Success Pit | |
| Shaft details for Success Pit |
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| Shaft details for Chirm Colliery |
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| Owners: | 1860s - John Straker |
| 1880s - Thomas Temple | |
| 1910s - Brinkburn Coal Co. | |
| Output: | 1860 - Coal. |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1882 - Coal, Landsale. | |
| 1883 - Coal, Landsale. | |
| 1888 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1900 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1902 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1905 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1925 - Coal. | |
| 1927 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1900 - 13 (11 below, 2 surface) |
| 1902 - 12 (10 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1905 - 11 (9 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1910 - 14 (12 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1915 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1925 - 8 (2 below, 6 surface) | |
| 1927 - 0 [Abandoned 5/27] | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Rothley (Limestone Coal) |
| 1910 - Rothley (Limestone Coal) | |
| 1915 - Rothley (Limestone Coal) | |
| 1925 - Chirm | |
| 1927 - Chirm [Abandoned 5/27] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Chirm Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1918 - Chirm seam abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Chirm Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Chirm Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 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
- 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910
- Mineral Statistics for 1860 (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 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
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