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	Copthill Quarry	Index	Copthill Quarry

Location:	Copthill, Weardale 9 miles [15 km] ESE of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 87) NY851408, 54° 45' 43" N, 2° 13' 54" W
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Owners:	1900s - Monkhouse & Peart

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

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Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Bell, Emerson, 11 Jan 1906, aged 36, Quarryman, He was killed by the premature explosion of a charge which he was putting into a hole. Three others were injured. The explosive, or part of it, was most probably frozen. [More information ...]
						Emmerson, William Walker, 12 Sep 1914, (accident: 11 Sep 1914), aged 14, Wagoner, deceased was filling stone into a wagon, when a piece of stone fell from the overburden, some 50 feet above, and hit him on the head, causing injuries from which he died the following day; the overburden had not been removed sufficiently far back from the rock edge
						2 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Copthill Quarry

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