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Lambley Colliery |
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Lambley Colliery |
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| Location: |
Midgeholme
8½ miles [13 km] NNW of Alston
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 86) NY663588, 54° 55' 22" N, 2° 31' 33" W |
| Maps: |
1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
16 Aug 1958 |
| Owners: |
1860s - M. Thompson & Sons. |
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1920s - Coanwood Coal Co. |
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1920s - Lambley Coal Co. Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1882 - Coal. |
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1883 - Coal. |
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1905 - Coal. |
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1910 - Coal. |
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1915 - Coal: Household. |
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1921 - Coal: Household. |
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1925 - Coal: Steam. |
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1930 - Coal: Steam. |
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1935 - Coal: Steam. |
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1940 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (14,000 tons) |
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1948 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1949 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1950 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1951 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1955 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1956 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1957 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| Employment: |
| Year | Pit | Total |  | Below | Above |
| 1905 | | 4 |   | 3 | 1 |
| 1910 | | 26 |   | 20 | 6 |
| 1915 | | 29 |   | 26 | 3 |
| 1921 | | 39 |   | 28 | 11 |
| 1921 | | Abandoned |
| 1925 | | 60 |   | 51 | 9 |
| 1930 | | 75 |   | 65 | 10 |
| 1935 | | 76 |   | 67 | 9 |
| 1940 | | 82 |   | 72 | 10 |
| 1945 | | 69 |   | 57 | 12 |
| 1947 | | 70 |   | 60 | 10 |
| 1948 | | 86 |   | 70 | 16 |
| 1949 | | 86 |   | 70 | 16 |
| 1950 | | 143 |   | 119 | 24 |
| 1951 | | 140 |   | 80 | 60 |
| 1954 | | 160 |   | 131 | 29 |
| 1955 | | 160 |   | 131 | 29 |
| 1956 | | 160 |   | 131 | 29 |
| 1957 | | 184 |   | 155 | 29 |
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NCB Employment Figures
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Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: |
1905 - Slag |
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1910 - Five Quarter, Three Quarter |
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1915 - Three Quarter |
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1921 - Three Quarter [Abandoned] |
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1925 - Five Quarter, Three Quarter, Top |
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1930 - Five Quarter, High Main, Slag, Three Quarter, Top, Well Syke |
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1935 - Five Quarter, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter, Well Syke |
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1940 - High Main, Low Main, Well Syke |
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1948 - High Main, Low Main, Upper Craig Neuk |
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1949 - High main, Low Main, Upper Craig Neuk |
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1950 - High Main, Low Main, Three Quarters, Upper Craig Nook, Wellsyke |
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1951 - Craignook, Low Main, Three Quarter |
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1954 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter |
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1955 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter |
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1956 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter |
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1957 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Lambley Colliery |
| Notes: |
1885 - Abandoned |
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1908 - Slag seam abandoned |
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!
| | |  | | | | Bright, John, 30 Oct 1869, aged 22, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal |
| | |  | | | | Hewitson, William, 09 Sep 1880, aged 55, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone |
| | |  | | | | Morton, John Parkes, 15 Nov 1949, (accident: 26 Jul 1949), aged 47, died from heart failure due to toxic myocarditis due to pulmonary infection, the whole infection being a terminal event on the xxxx? of paraplegia caused by a fractured spine accidentally sustained on 26 July 1949 at Lambley Colliery, post mortem held [Inquest: 18 Nov 1949] |
| | |  | | | | Walton, William, 01 Oct 1850, aged 23, killed by being thrown out of a corve in descending the pit |
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4 names found |
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The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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Inspectors Remarks |
| 13 Feb 1851 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | Fell down shaft |
| 04 Dec 1865 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | killed by fall of rope in shaft |
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Lambley Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Lambley Colliery
Credits
Sources:
- 1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), Northumberland, North Durham and Cumberland District by George William Southern, 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)
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1948 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1951 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1956 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1957 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Contributions by members of the Public
- 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
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