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Fourstones Quarry
| Location: |
Hexham
4 miles [7 km] NW of Hexham
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 87) NY887687, 55° 0' 46" N, 2° 10' 36" W |
| Opened: |
1781 |
| Closed: |
1959 |
| Output: |
1896 - Limestone. |
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1897 - Limestone and ganister. |
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1905 - Limestone. |
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1922 - Limestone. |
| Employment: |
1896 - 54 (24 below, 30 surface) |
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1897 - 69 (30 below, 39 surface) |
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1905 - 61 (22 below, 39 surface) |
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1922 - 27 (19 below, 8 surface) |
| Notes: |
 Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Fourstones Quarry |
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!
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.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Fourstones Quarry
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Fourstones Quarry
Memorial Images:
Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Quarries
- 1897 List of Quarries
- 1905 List of Quarries
- 1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- Headstone(s) in Churchyard, Newbrough
- Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983
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