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Dyke Head Colliery
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| Location: | Burnopfield |
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| Owners: | 1910s - George Hare |
| 1910s - George Hare & Sons | |
| Output: | 1915 - Coal. |
| 1921 - Coal. | |
| 1922 - Coal. | |
| 1935 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1936 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1940 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. (20,000 tons) | |
| Employment: | 1915 - 30 (26 below, 4 surface) |
| 1921 - 0 [Abandoned] | |
| 1922 - 17 (11 below, 6 surface) | |
| 1935 - 25 (14 below, 11 surface) | |
| 1936 - 20 (7 below, 13 surface) | |
| 1938 - 32 (18 below, 14 surface) | |
| 1940 - 24 (14 below, 10 surface) | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1915 - Brass Thill |
| 1921 - Brass Thill [Abandoned] | |
| 1935 - Three Quarter | |
| 1936 - Five Quarter | |
| 1940 - Five Quarter, Shield Row | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Dyke Head Colliery |
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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)
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1936 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1938 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
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