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	Kenton Colliery	Index	Kenton Colliery

Location:	Kenton 3 miles [5 km] NW of Newcastle
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ223673, 54° 59' 59" N, 1° 39' 2" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Engine Pit
	Frances Pit
	Shaft details for Frances Pit
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Kenton 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!

						Dawson, John, 29 Oct 1850, aged 21, killed by a tub running over him [Date of Inquest]
						Potts, John, 04 Oct 1818, Carpenter, killed at the new engine at the top of the Ouseburn bank on Kenton Waggonway. They were just going to start the engine, and Potts was greasing some of the wheels. He called to the engineman, to put the engine into gear, when the engine instantly moving one of the arms of the fly wheel caught Potts's head, and crushed it to atoms against the wall (NEIMME Ref: Bud-30-p89-90)
						2 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.

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 page have been kindly provided by the researchers at North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (N.E.I.M.M.E.) and are marked with .

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Kenton Colliery

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Kenton Colliery

Credits

Sources:

Related Links:

	On this site
	Newspaper articles

Further Reading:

• A History of the Parish of Gosforth by Richard Welford (first published 1879, re-published by Frank Graham 1975)

Further Research:

  Research Notes for Kenton Colliery