	Ferneybeds Colliery	Index	Ferneybeds Colliery

Ferneybeds Colliery

also known as Ulgham Colliery

Location:

Widdrington
13 miles [21 km] SSE of Alnwick

Map Ref:

(Sheet 81) NZ248938, 55° 14' 16" N, 1° 36' 36" W

Maps:

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

1910

Closed:

1924

Pits:

Shaft details for Ferneybeds Colliery

Owners:

???? - Widdrington Coal Co. Ltd.

Output:

1910 - Coal: Steam.

1921 - Coal: Steam.

1923 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1924 - Coal: Household, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1910	133	91	42
1915	210	170	40
1921	258	205	53
1923	225	176	49
1924	Abandoned

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1910 - Yard Seam

1915 - Yard Seam

1921 - Yard

1923 - Yard

1924 - Yard [Abandoned]

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Noble, Joseph, 15 Feb 1919, aged 39, Buried: Widdrington Churchyard
						Rutherford, John, 1919, [approximate date]
						Spowart, Thomas, 1917, [approximate date]
						Telfer, James, 19 Jan 1919, (accident: 11 Aug 1916), aged 35, Hewer, crushed beneath a fall of stone in his working place, taken to the Royla Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne where it was found that his spine was almost and that little could be done for him, after a short while he was removed to his home where he lingered for about two and a half years before succumbing to his injuries ; left a wife and two children, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Widdrington
						Weddell, Robert Henry, 17 May 1915, aged 14, Putter, he was driving a pony attached to an empty tub, and in passing under some iron girders the tub struck a timber supporting the girders, one of the girders fell upon him, fracturing the base of his skull, and also inflicting injury to the brain

						5 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

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 U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897
Headstone(s) in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Widdrington