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  Lambley Colliery  Index  Lambley Colliery  
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Lambley Colliery

(See also Naworth Colliery)


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Midgeholme
8½ miles [13 km] NNW of Alston
Map Ref: (Sheet 86) NY663588, 54° 55' 22" N, 2° 31' 33" W
Maps: Map 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Map 1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)
Opened:
Closed: 16 Aug 1958
Owners: 1860s - M. Thompson & Sons.
1920s - Coanwood Coal Co.
1920s - Lambley Coal Co. Ltd.
1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output: 1882 - Coal.
1883 - Coal.
1905 - Coal.
1910 - Coal.
1915 - Coal: Household.
1921 - Coal: Household.
1925 - Coal: Steam.
1930 - Coal: Steam.
1935 - Coal: Steam.
1940 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (14,000 tons)
1948 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1949 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1950 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1951 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1955 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1956 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1957 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  TotalScale Below Above
1905431
191026206
191529263
1921392811
1921Abandoned
192560519
1930756510
193576679
1940827210
1945695712
1947706010
1948867016
1949867016
195014311924
19511408060
195416013129
195516013129
195616013129
195718415529
NCB  NCB Employment Figures
Manager  Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked: 1905 - Slag
1910 - Five Quarter, Three Quarter
1915 - Three Quarter
1921 - Three Quarter [Abandoned]
1925 - Five Quarter, Three Quarter, Top
1930 - Five Quarter, High Main, Slag, Three Quarter, Top, Well Syke
1935 - Five Quarter, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter, Well Syke
1940 - High Main, Low Main, Well Syke
1948 - High Main, Low Main, Upper Craig Neuk
1949 - High main, Low Main, Upper Craig Neuk
1950 - High Main, Low Main, Three Quarters, Upper Craig Nook, Wellsyke
1951 - Craignook, Low Main, Three Quarter
1954 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter
1955 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter
1956 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter
1957 - Craignook, High Main, Low Main, Three Quarter
  Abandoned Seams  Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Lambley Colliery
Notes:

1885 - Abandoned

1908 - Slag seam abandoned



  Description Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Disasters Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Names Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

In Memoriam
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Bright, John, 30 Oct 1869, aged 22, Hewer, killed by a fall of coal

  Individal page   

Hewitson, William, 09 Sep 1880, aged 55, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

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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]

  Individal page   

Walton, William, 01 Oct 1850, aged 23, killed by being thrown out of a corve in descending the pit

 
  4 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 image, have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the image symbol next to the name to see the web page.


The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date Inspectors Remarks
13 Feb 1851 1––––1Fell down shaft
04 Dec 1865 1––––1killed by fall of rope in shaft

  Local Collieries Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery Map  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Lambley Colliery

Nearby Collieries  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Lambley Colliery


  Credits Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

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

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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