	Seven Sisters Colliery	Index	Seven Sisters Colliery

Seven Sisters Colliery

Location:	Cockfield
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:	31 Jan 1925
Owners:	1890s - Walker & Bradley
	1900s - Seven Sisters Colliery Co. Ltd.
	1920s - Stirk & Dickinson
	1920s - Stirk, Dickinson & Chapman
	1924 - Thomas Stirk
Output:	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1902 - Coal: Household.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1921 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1923 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1924 - Coal: Steam.
	1925 - Coal: Steam.
Employment:	1900 - 38 (29 below, 9 surface)
	1902 - 40 (30 below, 10 surface)
	1905 - 29 (23 below, 6 surface)
	1910 - 61 (50 below, 11 surface)
	1921 - 5 (3 below, 2 surface)
	1923 - 12 (8 below, 4 surface)
	1924 - 7 (4 below, 3 surface) [Temporarily closed]
	1925 - 0 [Abandoned]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Main Coal
	1910 - Five Quarter, Harvey, Main Coal
	1921 - Main
	1923 - Brockwell
	1924 - Brockwell [Temporarily closed]
	1925 - Brockwell [Abandoned]
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Seven Sisters Colliery
Notes:	1925 - Brockwell 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!

						Watson, John J., 31 Aug 1909, (accident: 25 Aug 1909), aged 17, Helper up, He was standing at the mouth of a level off an incline, on the outbye side of two full tubs. Two other tubs were being hauled up the incline from a lower level, and they got off the way and caught the first mentioned tubs. These latter fell on to the youth and he was severely injured, and died six days afterwards. He should not have been on, or near, the incline during the time a set was being hauled up

						1 name found

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Credits

Sources:

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
1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department