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	Lands Colliery	Index	Lands Colliery

Location:	Cockfield 14 miles [22 km] SW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92) NZ134250, 54° 37' 13" N, 1° 47' 29" W
Maps:	1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Opened:	1879
Closed:
Pits:	Engine Pit
	Shaft details for Engine Pit
Owners:	1860s - Henry Stobart & Co.
	1890s - Henry Stobart & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	1873 - Coal.
	1888 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal.
Employment:	1883 - 220
	1894 - 0 [Standing]
	1896 - 0 [Standing]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Lands Colliery

Description

Coal is also extensively worked in this township [Evenwood], as will be seen by the following account of the several pits when in working order. The owners of Norwood colliery have two seams at work – the Brockwell, 5 ft. 6in., at the depth of 14 fathoms, which dips considerably to the north east, and the Busty, 4 feet thick, is worked by two drifts north and south. The annual output is 120,000 tons, and the number employed is over 200. Evenwood colliery, by the North Bitchburn Coal Co., have two pits working the Brockwell, 5 ft. 9 in., at the depth of 72 fathoms. Five Quarter from 1-9 to 3 feet at 58 fathoms, and the yard seam at 51 fathoms.

These seams are worked by a drift from Evenwood Colliery. The average output is 160,000 tons per annum, and the number employed is over 300. There are fifty coke ovens, but not in use at present. Storey Lodge Colliery, by the North Bitchburn Coal Co., working the Yard seam and the Five Quarter, 4 ft. 6 in. yielding an annual output of 80,000 tons, and employing 180 hands. Reiley Fell Colliery, by Messrs. Henry Stobart & Co. Here are the Busty, 3 ft. 8 in. to 4 ft., and the Brockwell, 5 ft. 10 in. This pit is at present idle ; but there are 70 coke ovens, which are supplied from the Lands Colliery, which was sunk in 1879, and at which are worked the Harvey, 2 ft. 4 in., the Busty, 4 ft. 6 in. to 6 ft., and the Brockwell, 5 ft. 10 in., employing 100 hands. At Morley Colliery, by Mr. Andrew Mein, is worked by a drift, the Main Coal seam, 5 ft. 6 in. to 6 ft., yielding 30,000 tons per annum, and employing 40 men and boys. Pit Close is another small colliery, where Mr. George Lowson is working also the Main Coal seam.

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!

						Richardson, Robert, 05 Jun 1891, 1:30 p.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 27, Hewer, sudden fall of stone took place while taking coal off next to a fault slip in a broken jud, killing him on the spot [More information ...]
						Shaw, John, 08 Mar 1877, aged 13, Driver, while driving his set out-bye the limber crook came off and he fell before the tubs, which ran over him
						Trapwell, Francis James, 10 Aug 1899, aged 17, At Handwinch, He was struck on the forehead by the handle of a winch and fatally injured.
						Wear, John, 17 Dec 1858, aged 14, Horse Driver, crushed by tubs
						Wright, John, 07 Mar 1872, aged 13, Screener, crushed between waggons
						5 names found

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  more information on some of the fatalities shown above

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Date							Inspectors Remarks
23 Nov 1850	–	–	1	–	–	1
09 Feb 1852	–	–	–	1	–	1	Pit heap

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Lands Colliery

Credits

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  Research Notes for Lands Colliery