	Helme Park Colliery	Index	Helme Park Colliery

Helme Park Colliery

Location:	Roddymoor 10 miles [16 km] WSW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92) NZ129364, 54° 43' 20" N, 1° 47' 59" W
Maps:	1949 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Spark and Bainbridge
	C. Bainbridge and Co.
Output:	1860 - Coal.
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Helme Park Colliery

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!

						Hodson, Matthew, 22 Sep 1869, aged 24, Putter, crushed by tubs

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Helme Park Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Helme Park Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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.