Francis Colliery
| Location: |
Harperley
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| Map Ref: |
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| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
1911 |
| Owners: |
1900s - Hall & Finley |
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1900s - Harperley Colliery Co. |
| Output: |
1902 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. |
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1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. |
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1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. |
| Employment: |
1902 - 32 (27 below, 5 surface) [inc. Harperley] |
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1908 - 0 [Standing] |
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1910 - 0 [Standing] |
| Seams Worked: |
1905 - Main Coal |
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1910 - Main Coal [Standing] |
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 Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Francis Colliery |
| Notes: |
1911 - Main Coal (Brockwell) seam 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!
| | |  | | | | Craig, Joseph, 27 Nov 1902, aged 48, Hewer, killed by fall of top coal and stone, the shape a cauldron ; he was getting top coal down when the stone fell and caught him |
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1 name found |
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Credits
Sources:
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 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
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