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Shipcote Colliery
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| Location: | Gateshead ½ miles [1 km] SSE of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ259628, 54° 57' 33" N, 1° 35' 41" W |
| Opened: | c. 1856 |
| Closed: | 1880s |
| Pits: | North Pit |
 Shaft details for North Pit |
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| Owners: | 1850s - John Bowes & Co. (Messrs. Bowes, Hutt, Wood, & Charles M. Palmer) |
| 1860s - Marley Hill Coal Co. | |
| 1880s - John Bowes & Partners Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1860 - Coal. |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Shipcote Colliery |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Bowry, John, 13 Mar 1874, aged 19, Station Lad, run over by empty tubs which got amain down an incline | |||||
|  | Charlton, J., 27 Dec 1866, aged 56 | ||||
| Hood, J., 25 Jan 1872, aged 14, Driver, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Lumsden, John, 13 Dec 1876, (accident: 08 Dec 1876), aged 63, Shifter, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Menham, Jacob, 18 Oct 1861, killed by a fall of stone, left a wife and seven children | |||||
| Owens, Martin, 28 Aug 1871, (accident: 23 Aug 1871), aged 46, Hewer, run over by engine set [More information ...] | |||||
| Robinson, James, 23 Jul 1860, (accident: 17 Jul 1860), aged 50, Horsekeeper, run over my waggons on the incline | |||||
| Wardhaugh, James, 17 Apr 1870, aged 15, Greaser, caught by sheave on engine plane | |||||
| 8 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.
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next to the name to see the web page.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the
Coal Mining History Resource Centre (CMHRC) and are marked with .
The CMHRC is available here.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Shipcote Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Shipcote Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 List of mines by T. Y. Hall, published in Vol II (1853-4) of the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456) Where to find this report
- 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), Northumberland, North Durham, and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), Northumberland, North Durham, and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1874 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1216) Where to find this report
- 1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Newcastle-on-Tyne District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume S-T, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1894
- 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.
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