Dryburn Grange Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

also known as Catorhouse Colliery

Sources:

	Dryburn Grange Colliery	Index	Dryburn Grange Colliery

Location:

Durham
2 miles [3 km] NNW of Durham

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ259451, 54° 48' 1" N, 1° 35' 47" W

Maps:

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

Closed:

07 Nov 1924

Pits:

Shaft details for Dryburn Grange Colliery

Owners:

1860s - Earl Vane

1870s - Jacques, Stevenson & Co.

1890s - Framwellgate Coal Co. Ltd.

Output:

1860 - Coal.

1865 - Coal.

1873 - Coal.

1888 - Coal.

1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1896 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1902 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1915 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1921 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1923 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.

1924 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1882	Standing
1894	284	250	34
1896	243	215	28
1900	311	277	34
1902	239	209	30
1905	248	218	30
1910	79	66	13
1915	Temporarily stopped
1921	43	34	9
1923	249	216	33
1924	143	120	23
1924	Abandoned 7/11/24

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main

1910 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main

1915 - Brass Thill, Busty, Hutton, Low Main [Temporarily stopped]

1921 - Brass Thill, Busty, Harvey, Hutton, Low Main

1923 - Brass Thill, Harvey

1924 - Brass Thill, Harvey [Abandoned 7/11/24]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Dryburn Grange Colliery

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Cole, George, 10 Jun 1864, aged 54, Onsetter, crushed by descending cage [More information ...]

Halliday, Solomon, 31 May 1863, aged 27, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Hughes, James, 14 May 1866, aged 14, Driver, crushed by tubs

Trippet, John, 26 Aug 1876, aged 57, Collier, fall of coal while side cutting after it had been holed

4 names found

1863 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1864 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1866 Mines Inspectors Report
1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885
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