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Elm Park Drift
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| Location: | Medomsley 11½ miles [18 km] SW of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ106530, 54° 52' 18" N, 1° 50' 5" W |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| Opened: | 1836 |
| Closed: | |
| Pits: | Busty Seam Drift, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ104529 |
| Three Quarter Seam Drift | |
| Owners: | 1850s - Joseph Pease, Joseph Whitwell Pease, & Joseph Pease & Co. |
| 1860s - C. Bainbridge & Co. | |
| 1880's - Darlington Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. | |
| 1880's - Weardale Iron and Coal Co., Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1882 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1883 - 0 [Standing] |
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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!
 | Carrick, John, 28 Sep 1869, aged 21, Hewer, crushed by tubs | |||||
| James, Thomas, 12 Sep 1860, aged 14, Coupler, crushed by cage at shaft bottom [More information ...] | |||||
| Morgan, Henry, 21 Jun 1876, aged 27, Collier, fall of stone while turning away a wall in thin seam | |||||
| Sharp, John, 18 Jul 1864, aged 16, Apparatus Boy, breaking of apparatus chain | |||||
| Willis, John, 10 Dec 1868, aged 17, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| 5 names found | ||||||
If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Elm Park Drift
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Elm Park Drift
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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
- 1860 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
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this 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
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 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 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
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