	Norwood Colliery	Index	Norwood Colliery

Norwood Colliery

Location:

Dunston
1½ miles [3 km] SW of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ234619, 54° 57' 5" N, 1° 38' 0" W

Maps:

1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey

Opened:

Closed:

Pits:

Lady Pit

Shaft details for Lady Pit

Owners:

1850s - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer)

1890s - John Bowes & Partners Ltd.

1900s - Dunston, Norwood, & Swalwell Garesfield Coal Co.

1900s - Dunston Garesfield Collieries Ltd.

Output:

1900 - Coal: Gas, Household.

1902 - Coal: Gas, Household.

1905 - Coal: Gas, Household.

1910 - Coal: Gas, Household. Fireclay.

1915 - Coal: Gas, Household. Fireclay.

1921 - Coal: Gas, Household.

1923 - Coal: Coking.

1924 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1927 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1929 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1935 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1854	Working
1894	Pumping. Included in Dunston
1896	Pumping
1900	124	114	10
1902	231	209	22
1905	244	228	16
1910	454	417	37
1915	249	215	34
1921	333	298	35
1923	212	191	21
1924	282	256	26
1925	2	1	1
1925	Idle
1927	12	7	5
1929	152	132	20
1930	219	189	30
1935	Discontinued 7/31
1940	Closed

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Beaumont, Stone Coal

1910 - Brockwell, Stone Coal

1915 - Brockwell, Stone Coal, Three Quarter

1921 - Brockwell, Stone Coal, Three Quarter

1923 - Harvey, Three Quarter

1924 - Harvey, Three Quarters

1925 - Harvey, Three Quarters [Idle]

1927 - Harvey, Three Quarter

1929 - Harvey, Stone, Three Quarter

1930 - Beaumont, Harvey, Stone, Three Quarter

1935 - Beaumont, Stone, Three Quarter [Discontinued 7/31]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Norwood Colliery

Notes:

1935, 23 Oct - Three Quarter seam abandoned

Description

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!

						Blackburn, Emmanuel, 28 Aug 1914, aged 21, Stoneman, A shot was going to be fired near the main pony road canch by the chargeman, who instructed a putter to "guard " the shot on the inbye side. Deceased came out of his working place 70 yards from the shot and passed the putter, who told him that a shot was to be fired. However, in spite of this, he went on, it was thought by the putter, to go further inbye to complete another job before the end of his shift. He was found after the shot had been fired, close to it. It is not known what he came outbye for, except, perhaps, to get his safety lamp relit, as he may have lost his light after leaving the putter.
						Coates, Thomas, 26 Nov 1885, aged 73, Furnaceman, killed on engine plane by the empty set of tubs while walking outbye
						Hopper, Thomas, 03 Jun 1853, he was at work with his son taking away a pillar of coal, when it came down and covered him up to his waist. It took about half an hour to get him out, after which, he was taken home and died a few hours later. 'He was much crushed in the bowels and side.'
						May, Martin, 15 May 1885, aged 15, Driver, crushed between a tub and a baulk of wood
						Roberts, John, 26 Apr 1906, aged 26, Hewer [More information ...]
						Robinson, Williams Adams, 1896, aged 52, Caught between cage and shaft
						Stevenson, Joseph, 08 Dec 1909, aged 48, Under manager, explosion of lighting gas and air in office
						Walker, George, 22 Apr 1914, aged 42, Hewer, Deceased had been working single at the face of a 6 yard bord. He was found dead under a stone from a pot hole. He had evidently been hewing at the face and he had cut away the support to the heavy end of the stone. Several props were rolled out. The deputy said there were no signs of the pot hole before the accident.
						White, John, 22 May 1880, (accident: 19 May 1880), aged 49, Collier, seriously injured by a fall of coal while kirving
						Whitehead, -, 1853, Engineman, run over by waggons on colliery railway

						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 names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with .

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date							Inspectors Remarks
26 Aug 1853	1	–	–	–	–	1	fall of deal in shaft

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Norwood Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Norwood Colliery

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
1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903) Where to find this report
1885 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4760) Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023), Northern Division (No. 2) by J. R. R. Wilson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1929 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.
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume L-R, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1887
Contributions by members of the Public
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.

Further Research:

Research Notes for Norwood Colliery

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