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Coundon Colliery
also known as Coundon Gate Pit
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| Location: | Coundon 8½ miles [13 km] SSW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 93) NZ228298, 54° 39' 46" N, 1° 38' 44" W |
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| Owners: | 1850s - Nicholas Wood & Co. |
| 1900s - Coundon Colliery Co. Ltd. | |
| 1900s - Atherton & Walker | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1905 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1882 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1883 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1900 - 0 [Opening] | |
| 1902 - 29 (25 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1908 - 28 (23 below, 5 surface) | |
 Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Coundon Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1903, 21 May - Three Quarter seam abandoned - The mineral being unprofitable to work |
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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
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Bainbridge, -, 31 Oct 1820, aged 14, he was thrown from the rope on which himself and two men were descending the pit | |||||
| Goundry, William, 22 Dec 1828, aged 12, he was killed when the corf in which he and close relative were travelling caught a hook on the ascending rope, and he was thrown to the bottom of the shaft | |||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Coundon Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Coundon Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 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
- 1908 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- Contributions by members of the Public
- Mineral Statistics for 1855 (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 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 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
- Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Coundon Colliery
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