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Deanery Colliery
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| Location: | Shildon 10 miles [16 km] SSW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 93) NZ221276, 54° 38' 35" N, 1° 39' 24" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | |
| Sinking Started: | 04 Feb 1834 |
| Pits: |  Shaft details for Deanery Colliery |
| Owners: | 1850s - Joseph Pease, Joseph Whitwell Pease, & Joseph Pease & Co. |
| 1860's? - Joseph Pease & Co. | |
| 1940s - Joseph Hetherington & Co. | |
| 1950s - J. G. Longstaff | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1948 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1949 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. | |
| 1950 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1945 - 19 (13 below, 6 surface) | |
| 1948 - 12 (9 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1949 - 12 (9 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1950 - 17 (13 below, 4 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1948 - Five Quarter |
| 1949 - Five Quarter | |
| 1950 - Five Quarter | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Deanery Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1934 - Main seam abandoned |
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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!
 | Brown, Matthew, Jul 1837, aged 26, , Buried: 14 Jul 1837 [More information ...] | |||||
| Storey, Robert, Jul 1837, aged 10, address: Old Shildon, Buried: 14 Jul 1837 [More information ...] | |||||
| Sunter, Ralph, Jul 1837, aged 13, , Buried: 14 Jul 1837 [More information ...] | |||||
| Sunter, Robert, Jul 1837, aged 12, address: New Shildon, Buried: 14 Jul 1837 [More information ...] | |||||
| 4 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Deanery Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Deanery 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
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume C-E, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1881
- 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 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
- Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
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