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North Bishopley Quarry

Location:	Stanhope 15½ miles [25 km] WSW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 92, OL42) NZ029365, 54° 43' 24" N, 1° 57' 18" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1900s - Pease & Partners Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Limestone.
	1897 - Limestone.
	1905 - Limestone.
	1922 - Limestone.
Employment:	1896 - 37 (23 below, 14 surface)
	1897 - 34 (23 below, 11 surface)
	1905 - 33 (13 below, 20 surface)
	1922 - 0 [Not worked during 1922]

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!

						Hall, Thomas, 16 Jul 1902, aged 55, Platelayer, he and other two men were riding on a bogey, and on coming to a curve collided with two trucks which a locomotive engine was pushing towards them ; he was run over and so badly injured that he died the same day

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to North Bishopley Quarry

Credits

Sources:

1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Quarries
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
Industrial Locomotives of Durham by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1977