Featherstone Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

Sources:

	Featherstone Colliery	Index	Featherstone Colliery

Location:

Coanwood
8½ miles [13 km] NNW of Alston

Map Ref:

(Sheet 86, 87) NY685594, 54° 55' 42" N, 2° 29' 30" W

Opened:

Closed:

Pits:

No. 1 Pit, closed: Nov 1934

No. 2 Pit, closed: Sep 1935

No. 3 Pit

No. 4 Pit

No. 5 Pit

Owners:

1890s - Thompson & Sons

1930s - Tallentyre, Armstrong, Walton & Hudspith

1940s - Tallentyre, Armstrong, Todd & Dickinson

Output:

1888 - Coal.

1890 - Coal.

1894 - Coal: Steam.

1896 - Coal: Steam.

1900 - Coal: Steam.

1902 - Coal: Steam.

1905 - Coal: Steam.

1927 - Coal: Household.

1929 - Coal: Household.

1930 - Coal: Household.

1930 - No. 2 - Coal: Household.

1935 - No. 2 - Coal: Household.

1935 - No. 3 - Coal: Household.

1940 - No. 5 - Coal: Household. (1,300 tons)

Employment:

Year	Pit	Total	Below	Above
1894		315	237	78
1896		305	260	45
1900		245	217	28
1902		132	106	26
1905		19	8	11
1905		Abandoned Jan. 1905
1927		6	5	1
1929		12	10	2
1930		12	10	2
1930	No. 2	4	3	1
	Total	16	13	3
1935	No. 2	6	4	2
1935	No. 2	Abandoned 9/35
1935	No. 3	5	3	2
	Total	11	7	4
1940	No. 5	8	6	2

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Five Quarter [Abandoned Jan. 1905]

1927 - Five Quarter

1929 - Five Quarter

1930 - Five Quarter, High Main

1930 - No. 2 - High Main

1935 - No. 2 - High Main [Abandoned 9/35]

1935 - No. 3 - Five Quarter

1940 - No. 5 - Five Quarter

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Featherstone Colliery

Notes:

1900 - Abandoned - Partially exhausted. Not convenient to work the remainder at present

1905 - Five Quarter seam abandoned - coal exhausted

1935, 16 Sep - High Main or Coam Roof seam abandoned

1936, 30 Jun - Five Quarter (Slag) seam abandoned

1944, Mar - Five Quarter seam abandoned

None Found

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Bell, Anthony, 25 Aug 1903, aged 44, Engineman, crushed by tubs [More information ...]

Sharp, Robert, 15 Mar 1889, aged 33, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal

Simms, Robert, 26 Sep 1885, aged 55, Labourer, excavating earthwork; a portion fell and knocked him down, his head falling on a rail

3 names found

1885 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4760) Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), Newcastle District (No. 3) by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.