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Grewburn Colliery
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| Location: | Butterknowle |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | Mar 1950 |
| Owners: | 1930s - Butterknowle Marsfield Collieries Ltd. |
| 1930s - A. Million | |
| 1930s - Butterknowle Marsfield Collieries Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1923 - Coal: Household. |
| 1924 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1925 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1927 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. | |
| 1929 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. | |
| 1930 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1935 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| 1940 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1948 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1949 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1950 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1923 - 13 (4 below, 9 surface) |
| 1924 - 10 (7 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1925 - 0 [Closed 10/01/25] | |
| 1927 - 26 (22 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1929 - 36 (31 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1930 - 34 (28 below, 6 surface) | |
| 1935 - 3 | |
| 1940 - 4 (3 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1945 - 28 (22 below, 6 surface) | |
| 1945 - 0 [Abandoned] | |
| 1948 - 41 (32 below, 9 surface) | |
| 1949 - 41 (32 below, 9 surface) | |
| 1950 - 0 [Abandoned 3/50] | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1923 - Harvey |
| 1924 - Harvey | |
| 1925 - Harvey [Closed 10/01/25] | |
| 1927 - Harvey | |
| 1929 - Harvey | |
| 1930 - Harvey | |
| 1935 - Harvey | |
| 1940 - Harvey | |
| 1948 - Harvey | |
| 1949 - Harvey | |
| 1950 - Harvey [Abandoned 3/50] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Grewburn Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1945, Apr - Victoria seam abandoned |
1950, Mar - Harvey 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
No names found.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
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Credits
Sources:
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1925 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.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1948 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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 | Gaunless Valley History Trust |
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