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Greenlaw Walls Colliery

Location:	Duddo 7 miles [11 km] SSW of Berwick-upon-Tweed
Map Ref:	(Sheet 74 Kelso) NT943431, 55° 40' 55" N, 2° 5' 22" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Lady Pit
	Shaft details for Lady Pit
Owners:	1860s - Scremerston & Shoreswood Coal Co.
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

8th

Apr

1857

5 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Hogarth, James, 08 Apr 1857, aged 28, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]
						Hogarth, Robert, 08 Apr 1857, aged 35, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]
						Oliver, Andrew, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]
						Patterson, Thomas, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]
						Robson, John, 08 Apr 1857, killed in the 1857 disaster [More information ...]

						5 names found

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Credits

Sources:

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
Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1860 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1869 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.