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Newton Colliery

Location:	Newton-on-the-Moor 5 miles [8 km] S of Alnwick
Map Ref:	(Sheet 81) NU172055, 55° 20' 37" N, 1° 43' 41" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Engine Pit
	Hunter Pit, locn: (Sheet 81) NU157047, sinking: 1835
	Shaft details for Hunter Pit
Owners:	1860s - R. G. Reed
	1880s - S. F. Widdrington
	1890s - Newton Coal Co. Ltd.
	1900s - Newton Colliery Co. Ltd.
Output:	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	1882 - Coal (Landsale).
	1883 - Coal, Landsale.
	1888 - Coal (Landsale).
	1890 - Coal (Landsale).
	1894 - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1902 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1894 - 29 (23 below, 6 surface)
	1896 - 28 (24 below, 4 surface)
	1900 - 24 (20 below, 4 surface)
	1902 - 25 (21 below, 4 surface)
	1905 - 0 [Standing]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Newton Colliery
Notes:	1889 - Shilbottle seam abandoned - Coal worked out to water level.

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!

						Bennison, Robert Jenkinson, 22 Aug 1903, aged 20, Engineer, A shaft re-opened after a recent abandonment had partly filled with water, which was in course of being pumped out. Deceased, the son of the manager, and not regularly employed about collieries, was on a scaffold about 45 fathoms from the surface assisting another man to fix a suction pipe to the pump. The water was about 1 foot below the scaffold, and about 40 feet deep. A stone fell from the side of the shaft and knocked him into the water, and he was drowned. The shaft was walled to within 6 fathoms of the scaffold; below the walling was the natural strata, which had been examined by a shaft man, and it appeared secure.
						Cowell, William, 06 Feb 1857, aged 15, Miner, killed by a fall of stone
						Purvis, John, 14 Aug 1884, aged 30, Hewer, fall of timber from shaft side
						Richardson, William, 17 Jul 1862, Fireman, killed by a boiler explosion
						Riddell, Thomas, 11 Aug 1884, aged 67, Furnaceman, suffocated by styth, shaft having collapsed and stopped ventilation

						5 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 Ray Ditchburn from his research into fatalities in Northumberland and are marked with .

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Newton Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Newton Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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 from Ray Ditchburn from his research into mining fatalities in Northumberland
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