Elvet Colliery

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	Elvet Colliery	Index	Elvet Colliery

Location:	Durham ½ miles [1 km] SSE of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ276415, 54° 46' 6" N, 1° 34' 14" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	South Engine Pit, sinking: 1858
	Shaft details for South Engine Pit
Owners:	1840s - Backhouse, Mounsey, and Co.
	1860s - T. Crawford
	1880s - Owners of Elvet Colliery
	1900's - Elvet Colliery Co. Ltd.
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	1873 - Coal (Landsale).
	1888 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing.
	1896 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing.
	1902 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
Employment:	1883 - 49
	1894 - 85 (72 below, 13 surface)
	1896 - 91 (76 below, 15 surface)
	1900 - 83 (69 below, 14 surface)
	1902 - 60 (45 below, 15 surface)
	1905 - 64 (46 below, 18 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Hutton
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Elvet Colliery
Notes:	1740 - Boring operations were in operation from the surface at Stone Bridge in the township of Elvet, Durham
	1858 - South Engine Pit, Elvet Landsale Pit, near Durham City, was sunk from the surface to the Hutton Seam.
	1908 - Hutton seam abandoned

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Longstaff, Jackson, 01 Mar 1850, fell down the shaft

Reay, John, 11 Oct 1890, aged 23, Hewer, alleged internal sprains while pushing a tub in the pit; the doctor certified cause of death to be heart disease [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Waite, William, 12 May 1903, aged 66, Cartman, dropped down dead from heart disease in colliery yard; no inquest held

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1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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.
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
Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.