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Mount Moor Colliery
also known as Springwell (Vale Pit), Vale Pit
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| Location: | Springwell 4 miles [7 km] SSE of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ279577, 54° 54' 47" N, 1° 33' 53" W |
| Maps: |  1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
| 1896 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
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| 1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | bef. 1826 |
| Closed: | May 1931 |
| Pits: | Shaft details for Mount Moor Colliery |
| Owners: | 1850s - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer) |
| 1860s - Marley Hill Coal Co. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Gas, Household. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1915 - Hutton, Low Main, Main |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Mount Moor Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1928, 21 Dec - Little Limestone seam abandoned |
1933, 15 Nov - Metal, Main, Maudlin, Low Main, Hutton seams abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
| 31st | Dec | 1814 | Rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, 5 lives lost (Show Names) |
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Chapman, Nicholas, 17 Dec 1846, aged 48, Pitman, found dead at bottom of shaft - supposed pushed his tub and self down by mistake | |||||
|  | Davison, John, 31 Dec 1814, aged 18, killed in the 1814 disaster, rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, of the Mount, son of Alexander and Catherine Davison, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington, on 1st Jan 1815 [More information ...] | ||||
| Fatherley, John, 30 Jul 1925, aged 16, Driver, crushed between a tub and a prop | |||||
| Golightly, James, 14 Mar 1922, (accident: 27 Jan 1922), aged 47, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Johnson, William, 23 Jan 1920, aged 57, Screener, killed through being crushed between truck and wall | |||||
| Mitcheson, Sidney, 13 Dec 1920, aged 20, Pony putter, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Simpson, Robert, 31 Dec 1814, aged 21, killed in the 1814 disaster, rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, of Lamesley, brother of Stewart and William, Buried: St. Mary's Churchyard, Gateshead on 01 Jan 1815 [More information ...] | |||||
| Simpson, Stewart, 31 Dec 1814, aged 15, killed in the 1814 disaster, rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, of Lamesley, brother of Robert and William, Buried: St. Mary's Churchyard, Gateshead on 01 Jan 1815 [More information ...] | |||||
| Simpson, William, 31 Dec 1814, aged 13, killed in the 1814 disaster, rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, of Lamesley, brother of Robert and Stewart, Buried: St. Mary's Churchyard, Gateshead on 01 Jan 1815 [More information ...] | |||||
| Smith, Thomas, 31 Dec 1814, aged 7, killed in the 1814 disaster, rope slipped from chain when ascending the pit, of Eighton Banks, Buried: St. Andrew's Churchyard, Lamesley on 01 Jan 1815 [More information ...] | |||||
| 10 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 ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
Some of the details of mining fatalities on this web site have been generated from
Parish/Bishop's Transcript's burial records kindly supplied by Julie Thompson
and are marked with .
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Mount Moor Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Mount Moor Colliery
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Gallery Images:
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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
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- Contributions by members of the Public
- Durham Miners' Association, Compensation Department, Minutes of Arbitration Committee - January 1920 to December 1921. Vol II. [DMM Ref: L-01629 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
- Headstone(s) in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Washington
- Headstone(s) in St. Andrew's Churchyard, Lamesley
- Headstone(s) in St. Mary's Churchyard, Gateshead
- 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.
- Parish/Bishop's Transcript's burial records kindly supplied by Julie Thompson
Pictures:
- Colliery picture provided by David Kitching
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Blackfell Colliery |
| External sites | |
 | Bowes Railway Centre |
Further Research:
Research Notes for Mount Moor Colliery
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