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Moorside Drift
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| Location: | Lamplugh 5½ miles [9 km] ENE of Whitehaven |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 89) NY055215, 54° 34' 47" N, 3° 27' 44" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | Mar 1950 |
| Owners: | 1940s - Dean Moor Colliery Co. Ltd. |
| Output: | 1935 - No. 2 - Coal: Coking, Household, Steam. |
| 1948 - No. 4 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. | |
| 1949 - No. 4 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. | |
| 1950 - No. 4 - Coal: Household, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1935 - No. 2 - 76 (59 below, 17 surface) |
| 1945 - No. 4 - 58 (43 below, 15 surface) | |
| 1948 - No. 4 - 58 (40 below, 18 surface) | |
| 1949 - No. 4 - 57 (40 below, 17 surface) | |
| 1950 - No. 4 - 56 (38 below, 18 surface) [Abandoned 3/50] | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1935 - No. 2 - Yard |
| 1948 - No. 4 - Anthony | |
| 1949 - No. 4 - Anthony | |
| 1950 - No. 4 - Anthony [Abandoned 3/50] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Moorside Drift |
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| Notes: | 1944, Mar - Abandoned |
1950, Mar - Anthony seam abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
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Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Moorside Drift
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Moorside Drift
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Credits
Sources:
- 1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1948 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1949 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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