	Iveston Colliery	Index	Iveston Colliery

Iveston Colliery

Location:	Iveston 10 miles [16 km] WNW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ133505, 54° 50' 57" N, 1° 47' 34" W
Maps:	1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
	1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Opened:	1839
Closed:	1892
Pits:	Shaft details for Iveston Colliery
Owners:	1839 - Black, Reay & Co.
	1857 - Jonathan Richardson & Partners
	1860s - Consett Iron Co. Ltd.
Output:	1873 - Coal.
	1888 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal.
	1900 - Coal.
	1905 - Coal.
	1910 - Coal.
Employment:	1883 - 352
	1894 - 21 (16 below, 5 surface)
	1896 - 3 (2 below, 1 surface) [Standing]
	1900 - 0 [Standing]
	1902 - 0 [Standing]
	1905 - 0 [Not worked]
	1910 - 0 [Abandoned]
	1915 - 2
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1915 - Low Main
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Iveston Colliery
Notes:	1839 - Iveston Colliery, near Shotley Bridge, was won.
	1866 - Sunnyside Pumping shaft, Iveston Colliery, was sunk from the surface to the Brockwell Seam.
	1867 - A boring was put down below the thill of the Busty Seam, Sunnyside Pit, Iveston Colliery, to prove the Brockwell Seam.

Description

Iveston Colliery is not at present being worked, though there is a small landsale worked near the village, the coal royalty having been left by one of the Claverings for the people of Iveston manor, who are only required to pay the cost of leading and getting the coal. A powerful duplex pumping engine has been placed at the pumping shaft, situated to the east of Iveston, which raises the water from the Royalty, below water level, to the Consett Iron Works.

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham

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!

						Akens, Patrick, 08 Jan 1859, aged 28, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof
						Atkinson, Matthew, 28 Apr 1865, aged 60, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone
						Donely, Patrick, 02 Mar 1875, aged 25, Hewer, fall of top coal
						Fitzpatrick, James, 17 Dec 1877, aged 47, Collier, fall of band stone, while working underneath it in Busty seam
						Gardner, George, 26 Apr 1884, aged 17, Putter, severely crushed between two tubs in shaft siding
						Grey, Silas/Sylvester, 03 Jun 1876, aged 33, Deputy, fall of large stone while in the act of drawing a jud
						Hardy, Thomas, 25 Apr 1890, aged 51, Hewer, fall of stone from a slip in the roof
						Hindmarsh, Charles, 23 Nov 1863, Hewer, fall of top coal
						Hunter, George, 24 Feb 1866, aged 26, Joiner, fell down staple whilst laying a floor in engine house - plank canted
						Lupton, William, 12 Dec 1868, aged 36, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal
						McCann, William J., 17 Apr 1860, aged 26, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof
						Mordue, Richard, 08 Jul 1883, (accident: 31 May 1883), aged 22, Hewer, strained side while lifting stone; after working two days he left off and died from inflammation
						O'Neal, James, 13 Mar 1863, aged 24, Hewer, fall of stone in pillar working
						Parkes, Thomas, 04 Mar 1870, aged 17, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal
						Quin, Bernard, 31 May 1887, aged 18, Putter, while leading a pony down a bord it stumbled and fell on him, crushing him to death
						Rafferty, Patrick, 21 May 1880, (accident: 17 May 1880), aged 39, Collier, head severely crushed between tub and side of way; while assisting to put it on the way the pony started
						Rostrum, -, 09 Feb 1861, Screener, died from natural causes in the pit
						Sibbett, William, 13 Aug 1878, aged 21, Collier, fall of band stone while working under it without sprags, contrary to orders
						Spark, Thomas Mathew, 19 Nov 1874, aged 13, Driver, crushed between tub and crowntree, Chester Ward Coroner's Inquest, place: Leadgate, cause: crushed at Iveston colliery (DRO Ref: COR/C/2/142)
						Toole, Terence, 17 Oct 1872, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone
						Waggot, John, 18 Dec 1860, aged 22, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

						21 names found

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.

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Iveston Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Iveston Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1859 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1863 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1865 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1866 Mines Inspectors Report
1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456) Where to find this report
1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903) Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1887 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5450) Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
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
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
Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
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.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.