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Chapel Burn Colliery
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| Location: | Low Row |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | Mar 1948 |
| Owners: | 1940s - Chapelburn Colliery Ltd. |
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |
| Output: | 1935 - Coal: Gas, Household. Fireclay. |
| 1940 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. | |
| 1948 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1950 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1935 - 13 (7 below, 6 surface) |
| 1940 - 38 (30 below, 8 surface) | |
| 1945 - 10 (9 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1948 - 3 [Discontinued 12/47] | |
| 1950 - 0 [Abandoned 3/48] | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1935 - Lower Limestone, Wallshield |
| 1940 - Thirwall | |
| 1948 - Thirlwall [Discontinued 12/47] | |
| 1950 - Thirlwall [Abandoned 3/48] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Chapel Burn Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1948, Mar - Thirlwall seam abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
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Names of those killed at this colliery
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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