Hill Top Harvey Colliery

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

also known as Malton Hilltop Colliery

Sources:

	Hill Top Harvey Colliery	Index	Hill Top Harvey Colliery

Location:

Langley Park
4½ miles [7 km] WNW of Durham

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ207444, 54° 47' 38" N, 1° 40' 41" W

Maps:

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)

Opened:

Closed:

1951

Owners:

1940s - Sir S. A. Sadler Ltd.

1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)

Output:

1894 - Coal: Household.

1900 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1902 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1905 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1910 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1915 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1921 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1921 - Harvey and Hutton Drift - Coal: Coking.

1925 - Hutton Drift - Coal: Coking.

1930 - Coal: Coking.

1935 - Coal: Coking.

1950 - Coal: Coking.

1950 - Harvey Drift - Coal: Coking.

1951 - Harvey Drift - Coal: Coking.

1952 - Harvey Drift - Coal: Coking.

1953 - Harvey Drift - Coal: Coking.

Employment:

Year	Pit	Total	Below	Above
1894		6	4	2
1900		51	41	10
1902		106	97	9
1905		125	115	10
1910		312	205	107
1921		18	18
1921		inc. Malton
1921	Harvey and Hutton Drift	142	101	41
	Total	160	119	41
1930		54	39	15
1935		50	36	14
1945		12	8	4
1945	Harvey Drift	106	89	17
	Total	118	97	21
1950		Discontinued 4/47
1950	Harvey Drift	inc. in Malton
	Total	0
1951	Harvey Drift	149	119	30
1952	Harvey Drift	149	119	30
1953	Harvey Drift	40	33	7

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Hutton, Low Main

1910 - Hutton, Low Main

1915 - Hutton, Low Main

1921 - Hutton, Low Main

1921 - Harvey and Hutton Drift - Harvey, Hutton

1925 - Hutton Drift - Busty, Harvey, Hutton, Low Main

1930 - Hutton

1935 - Hutton, Low Main

1950 - Hutton [Discontinued 4/47]

1950 - Harvey Drift - Harvey

1951 - Harvey Drift - Harvey

1952 - Harvey Drift - Harvey

1953 - Harvey Drift - Harvey

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Hill Top Harvey Colliery

At Hill Top the Hutton seam is worked to a small extent by a drift, and is about 4 feet thick.

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham

None Found

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.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with .

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Hill Top Harvey Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Hill Top Harvey Colliery

Doyle, Thomas, 05 May 1883, aged 21, Hewer, found dead at the bottom of the pit, Buried: B.V.M. Queen of Martyrs Church, Newhouse, Esh Winning [More information ...]

Simpson, Arthur, 27 Nov 1943, (accident: 23 Nov 1943), aged 43, Deputy, he climbed up an iron ladder, propped against and electric pole, to adjust the blackout shade on a light outside the fan engine house; he slipped and fell fracturing his right hip; he underwent an operation on 26 Nov at Durham County Hospital and it was discovered he had paralysis of the bowels, he died in hospital the next day; death was due to heart failure, due to paralysis of the bowels and broncho-pneumonia resulting from the fracture of the hip

Towns, William S., 06 Mar 1905, aged 10, [Not employed], struck by pole of horse gig; fractured skull [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

3 names found

1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 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
1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1952 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1953 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
Headstone(s) in Catholic Churchyard, Esh Winning
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).