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| Location: | Cornhill 10 miles [16 km] SSW of Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 74 Kelso) NT955377, 55° 37' 59" N, 2° 4' 14" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1918 |
| Pits: |  Shaft details for Ford Colliery |
| Owners: | 1880s - Brown & Co. |
| 1900s - Thomas Snowdon | |
| Output: | 1888 - Coal (Landsale). |
| 1890 - Coal (Landsale). | |
| 1905 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface) |
| 1908 - 9 (7 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1910 - 10 (7 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1915 - 8 (6 below, 2 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Limestone Coal |
| 1910 - Limestone Coal | |
| 1915 - Limestone Coal (Diamond) | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Ford Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1919 - Diamond 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!
 |  | Tait, Thomas, 12 Oct 1826, aged 17, Miner, coal fell down shaft | ||||
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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.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Ray Ditchburn from his research into fatalities in Northumberland and are marked with
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Ford Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Ford Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1908 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume F-K, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1885
- Contributions from Ray Ditchburn from his research into mining fatalities in Northumberland
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Related Links:
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Ford Colliery
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