| Middle Bitchburn Colliery | Index | Middle Bitchburn Colliery | ||
 |
|
 |
||
Middle Bitchburn Colliery
also known as Middle Beechburn Colliery
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
| Location: | Howden-le-Wear |
| Map Ref: | |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | |
| Owners: | 1860s - George Peers & Co. |
| 1880s - Middle Beechburn Coal & Coke Co. | |
| Output: | 1873 - Coal. |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1883 - 115 |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
| |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Middle Bitchburn Colliery |
|
| Notes: | 1878 - Five Quarter Or Busty seam abandoned |
1894 - Constantine, Ballarat seams abandoned - coal exhausted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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!
 | Harrison, Richard, 30 Apr 1868, aged 65, Horse Keeper, crushed by tubs in engine plane | |||||
| Megrow, John, 01 May 1872, aged 20, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Scott, William, 18 Jan 1865, aged 12, Horse Driver, crushed by horse and tub on surface | |||||
| Thompson, T. W., 17 Aug 1890, aged 4, [Not Employed], strayed on to a tramway and was run over and killed by a set of tubs [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident] | |||||
| 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 ,
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Credits
Sources:
- 1865 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South Durham District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 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)
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 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
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related Links:
None found
Further Reading:
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3, provides a brief history of the colliery along with the history of the associated Miners Lodge Banner
Contains public sector information licensed under the 
