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	Newlandside Quarry	Index	Newlandside Quarry

Location:	Stanhope 16½ miles [27 km] SSE of Hexham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92) NY995383, 54° 44' 22" N, 2° 0' 28" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1940s - Walton's Alston Lime & Coal Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Limestone.
	1897 - Limestone.
	1905 - Limestone.
	1922 - Limestone.
Employment:	1896 - 240
	1897 - 248
	1905 - 139 (134 below, 5 surface)
	1922 - 73 (61 below, 12 surface)
	1940 - 12
Notes:	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Newlandside Quarry

Description

The Stanhope quarries are Parson Byers & Newlandside, which adjoin one another and form a continuous face three miles in length. The limestone bed reaches a thickness of about 60 ft. and lies at an elevation of about 900 ft. above sea level. Each of the quarries is served by a self-acting incline which delivers the loaded 10-ton railway trucks to the lines of the L. & N. E. Railway.

A pair of gravity-operated balanced drums are placed at the top of each incline. The Parson Byers drums are 12 ft. dia. by 3 ft. wide, those at Newlandside being 8 ft. dia. by 3 ft. 2 in. wide. The latter have recently been renewed. The new drums made in the company's fabrication department are of welded-steel construction. The brakes are "Ferodo" lined.

From the incline head to the working face the trucks are handled by four-wheel coupled saddle-tank steam locomotives having 12-in, cylinders by 18 in. stroke.

The quarrymen work in pairs and load the limestone direct into trucks, the face being served with 4-ft. 8½-in. gauge tracks. Blasting is done with high explosives, the holes being put in by compressed-air drills. Each quarry is equipped with a Ruston-Bucyrus steam-driven excavator for removing the overburden. One of these excavators has a bale pull of 18 tons and the other a pull of 20 tons.

Iron & Coal Trades Review 1937

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!

						Craig, William, 07 Apr 1909, aged 38, Quarryman, Knocked over the edge of the panel on which he was working by a stone falling from a slip [More information ...]
						Davis, Joseph Sydney, 02 May 1929, aged 44, Buried: St. Michael & All Angels, Frosterley
						Gardiner, Joseph William, 28 Mar 1910, aged 28, Quarryman, killed by a fall of rock and knocked a distance of about 20 feet down the quarry face [More information ...]
						Peart, John Watson, 30 Aug 1909, aged 24, Barer, Fatally injured by a fall of loose soft earth [More information ...]
						Vipond, William, 08 Oct 1906, aged 54, Quarryman, He was knocked off the bench upon which he was working by a stone which fell from a point about 6 ft. above the bench. [More information ...]
						5 names found

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