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Plashetts Colliery

Location:

Plashetts
22½ miles [36 km] NW of Hexham

Map Ref:

(Sheet 80) NY682895, 55° 11' 55" N, 2° 29' 59" W

Maps:

1922 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

Closed:

May 1935

Pits:

Air Shaft, locn: (Sheet 80) NY694905

Shaft details for Air Shaft

Doctor Drift

Shaft details for Plashetts Colliery

Owners:

1850s - Duke of Northumberland

1860s - J. F. Tone & Co.

1880s - C. U. Laws.

1890s - Plashetts Coal Co.

1940s - W. A. Nixon

Output:

1882 - Coal.

1883 - Coal.

1890 - Coal.

1894 - Coal: Steam.

1896 - Coal: Steam.

1900 - Coal: Steam.

1902 - Coal: Steam.

1910 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.

1921 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.

1930 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1935 - Coal: Manufacturing.

1950 - Coal: Steam.

1955 - Coal: Steam.

1958 - Coal: Steam.

1960 - Coal: Steam.

1961 - Coal: Steam.

1964 - Coal: Steam.

Employment:

Year	Pit	Total	Below	Above
1894		74	52	22
1896		59	43	16
1900		86	70	16
1902		74	58	16
1905		75	57	18
1910		106	81	25
1915		99	75	24
1921		74	52	22
1930		13	8	5
1935		Abandoned 10/35
1935	Doctor Drift	Abandoned 10/35
	Total	0
1945		8	5	3
1950		13	9	4
1955		16	10	6
1958		16	10	6
1960		16	10	6
1961		5	4	1
1964		5	4	1

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1905 - Limestone Coal

1910 - Plashetts (Limestone Coal)

1915 - Plashetts (Limestone Coal)

1921 - Plashetts (Limestone Coal)

1930 - Plashetts

1935 - Plashetts [Abandoned 10/35]

1935 - Doctor Drift - Plashetts [Abandoned 10/35]

1950 - Plashetts

1955 - Plashetts

1958 - Plashetts

1960 - Plashetts

1961 - Plashetts

1964 - Plashetts

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Plashetts Colliery

Notes:

1935, 01 Jun - Plashetts seam abandoned

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!

						Beattie, Thomas, 29 May 1896, aged 15, Driver, He fell off the limmers, and was crushed between the tubs and the roadside [Inspection made & inquest attended]
						Breckon, Thomas, 31 Aug 1870, aged 41, Deputy, killed by a fall of stone
						Cunningham, Robert, 01 Jul 1868, aged 12, Driver, run over by tubs
						Slater, Joseph, 1932, killed by black damp gas while inspecting some new workings [More information ...]
						Wylie, Alexander, 11 Mar 1904, aged 47, Hewer, Deceased was driving a place 5 feet wide (known as a skirting) along the side of pillar of coal in the Plashetts seam, and was found dead at the face by the putter with a mass of coal on him measuring 4 feet by 4 feet by 2 feet. The coal was relieved by undercutting to the extent of 2 feet 3 inches, and there was in addition an old break in the pillar. No sprags had been set, although there were loose sprags in the place. The deputy had visited the place three times that day before the accident. The Local Inspectors in their report, after reciting the facts, concluded "there being no blame attached to the management."

						5 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Plashetts Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Plashetts Colliery

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Sources:

1868 Mines Inspectors Report, Northumberland, North Durham and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456) Where to find this report
1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
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
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), 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
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
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
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1958 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
1964 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
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
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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