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  Prestwick Colliery  Index  Prestwick Colliery  
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Prestwick Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Prestwick, Ponteland
6½ miles [10 km] NW of Newcastle
Map Ref: (Sheet 88) NZ185713, 55° 2' 9" N, 1° 42' 38" W
Maps: Map 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
Map 1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)
Opened: 1771
Closed: Oct 1966
Pits: Lizzie Ann Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ184720
Shaft  Shaft details for Lizzie Ann Pit
Owners: 1771 - Jonathan Thompson
1860s - Turner & Young.
1910s - Callerton Collieries Ltd.
1940s - East Walbottle Coal Co. Ltd.
1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
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.
1910 - Coal: Household.
1921 - Coal: Household.
1925 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay.
1930 - Coal: Steam.
1935 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1947 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1950 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1955 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1960 - Coal: Household, Steam.
1961 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:
Year Pit  TotalScale Below Above
189417116
189617116
19001275
190216106
190520173
1910443014
191528226
192118144
1925574710
1930615011
19351099118
19451078126
19471109020
195016512936
195517613046
196017613046
196117613046
NCB  NCB Employment Figures
Manager  Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked: 1905 - Brockwell, Two Feet
1915 - Brockwell, Four Feet
1921 - Brockwell
1925 - Brockwell
1930 - Brockwell
1935 - Beaumont
1950 - Brockwell, Busty
1955 - Brockwell, Busty
1960 - Brockwell, Busty
1961 - Brockwell, Busty
  Abandoned Seams  Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Prestwick Colliery
Notes:

1858 - Abandoned

1903 - Brockwell Coal, and a seam lying 15 fathoms above it abandoned - exhaustion of coal and collapse of roads

1934, 17 May - Brockwell seam abandoned

1935, 17 Feb - Main seam abandoned

1937, 10 Nov - Beaumont or Engine seam abandoned



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Description


  Disasters Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Names Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

No names found.


  Local Collieries Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery Map  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Prestwick Colliery

Nearby Collieries  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Prestwick Colliery


  Credits Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
  • 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
  • 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1925 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
  • 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
  • 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • 1961 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
  • An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910
  • 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

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Further Reading:

  • Collieries of Northumberland (Volume 1), James T. Tuck, 1993, TUPS Ltd., ISBN 1-871518-08-3

Further Research:

Goto Research Notes  Research Notes for Prestwick Colliery

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