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Marshall Green Colliery
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| Location: | Witton le Wear 10 miles [16 km] SW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 92) NZ156317, 54° 40' 48" N, 1° 45' 29" W |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | 1830 |
| Closed: | 1936 |
| Owners: | 1850s - Skinner |
| 1860s - G. Pears & Co. | |
| 1880s - Marshall Green Coal Co. | |
| 1900s - Wear Valley Coal & Brick Co. | |
| 1930s - Pease & Partners Ltd. | |
| 1940s - Livingstone Refractories Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| 1902 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1905 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1921 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1925 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1930 - Ganister. Fireclay. | |
| 1935 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. Clay. | |
| 1940 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. Clay. | |
| 1950 - Coal: Household. Mainly fireclay. Fireclay. | |
| 1955 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1883 - 5 | |
| 1902 - 10 (8 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1905 - 18 (17 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1910 - 27 (23 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1915 - 33 (30 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1921 - 18 (16 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1925 - 25 (20 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1930 - 19 (15 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1935 - 18 (15 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1940 - 27 (23 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1945 - 18 (15 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1950 - 19 (15 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1955 - 16 (11 below, 5 surface) | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Marshall Green |
| 1910 - Ganister Seam, Marshall Green | |
| 1915 - Ganister Seam, Marshall Green | |
| 1921 - Ganister, Marshall Green | |
| 1925 - Fireclay | |
| 1930 - Marshall Green | |
| 1935 - Marshall Green | |
| 1940 - Ganister Clay, Marshall Green | |
| 1950 - Ganister Fireclay, Marshall Green | |
| 1955 - Ganister Fireclay, Marshall Green | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Marshall Green Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1846 - Marshall Green Colliery was won. |
1853 - A series of bore-holes were put down at Marshall Green Colliery, near Witton-le-Wear, to prove the coals and local ironstone deposits lying below the Main Coal or Brockwell Seam. |
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1888 - Upper, Middle and Lower seams abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Bates, Edward, 22 Feb 1855, killed by a fall of clay from the roof | |||||
| Hopper, John, 24 Nov 1852, killed by a fall of stone [Inquest: 30 Nov 1852] | |||||
| 2 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Marshall Green Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Marshall Green Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 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
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Mineral Statistics for 1855 (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 1860 (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 1865 (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 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
- Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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