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Greenfoot Quarry

Location:	Stanhope 16 miles [25 km] S of Hexham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92) NY983392, 54° 44' 52" N, 2° 1' 35" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - R. Summerson & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Whinstone and Limestone.
	1897 - Whinstone, Limestone.
	1905 - Whinstone.
	1922 - Igneous rock.
Employment:	1896 - 48 (34 below, 14 surface)
	1897 - 49 (31 below, 18 surface)
	1905 - 48 (30 below, 18 surface)
	1922 - 32 (14 below, 18 surface)

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!

						Barnes, Joseph S., 07 Jan 1904, aged 34, Quarryman, Bored a hole a distance of 12 feet. It had been fired three times before. He and his partner were putting a fourth charge of 40lb. in when the charge exploded and killed him. His partner was injured

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Greenfoot Quarry

Credits

Sources:

1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
Industrial Locomotives of Durham by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1977