	Langleydale Colliery	Index	Langleydale Colliery

Langleydale Colliery

Location:	Cockfield 15 miles [24 km] NNW of Richmond
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92, OL42) NZ088237, 54° 36' 30" N, 1° 51' 50" W
Maps:	1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
	1949 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:	1931
Owners:	???? - New Copley Collieries Ltd.
Output:	1910 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
	1921 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1923 - Coal: Coking, Steam.
	1924 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1925 - Coal: Manufacturing.
	1927 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1929 - Coal: Coking.
	1930 - Coal: Coking.
Employment:	1910 - 48 (42 below, 6 surface)
	1915 - 30 (26 below, 4 surface)
	1921 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface)
	1923 - 43 (21 below, 22 surface)
	1924 - 37 (26 below, 11 surface)
	1925 - 24 (18 below, 6 surface) [Idle]
	1927 - 57 (44 below, 13 surface)
	1930 - 0 [Idle 1930]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Main Coal
	1915 - Main Coal
	1921 - Five Quarter, Main Coal (Brockwell)
	1923 - Five Quarter, Main Coal (Brockwell)
	1924 - Cowley, Five Quarter
	1925 - Cowley, Five Quarter [Idle]
	1927 - Cowley, Five Quarter
	1929 - Cowley
	1930 - Cowley [Idle 1930]
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Langleydale Colliery
Notes:	1918 - Five Quarter, Main Coal seams abandoned
	1926 - Five Quarter seam abandoned
	1931, 26 Sep - Cowley 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!

						Railton, John, 25 Jul 1911, (accident: 19 Aug 1910), aged 61, Shifter, this accident was not regarded as serious at the time and was therefore not reported; his son had a rise stone drift taken by contract and the deceased worked in it but was on the other shift; the drift had reached the seggar of the 5/4 seam, and while Railton and another stoneman were busy putting up a balk to secure the roof a stone fell and caught him on the back knocking him down; he died on July 25th from heart failure but probably the injury he received was the primary cause

						1 name found

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Credits

Sources:

1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department