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Spital Tongues Colliery
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| Location: | Jesmond 1½ miles [2 km] NW of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ236654, 54° 58' 58" N, 1° 37' 52" W |
| Opened: | 1830's |
| Closed: | 1858 |
| Sinking Started: | Dec 1833 |
| Pits: |  Shaft details for Spital Tongues Colliery |
| Owners: | 1850s - Edward Richardson & Co. |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Spital Tongues 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!
 |  | Blakey, Charles, 28 Oct 1842, aged 15, Putter, An inquest was held on 28 October into the death of Charles Blakey, a 15 year old putter who was crushed to death by "the falling of a 'band' between two seams of coal." [date of inquest] | ||||
| Burrell, John Campbell, 04 Jun 1852, Engineman, boiler explosion [More information ...] | |||||
| Coulson, William Armstrong, 09 Jun 1852, Staithman, run over by waggons in the tunnel | |||||
| Ford, Peter, 16 Dec 1852, aged 23, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone | |||||
| Hall, William, 24 Dec 1855, crushed by tubs | |||||
| Henderson, Henry, 28 Nov 1846, (accident: 27 Nov 1846), aged 55, Hewer, crushed by a fall of coal | |||||
| Moody, Edward, 04 Jun 1852, Fireman, boiler explosion [More information ...] | |||||
| Watson, William, 06 Dec 1847, aged 24, killed by a fall of stone from the roof | |||||
| 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.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by
Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser
and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!
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| 30 Jun 1852 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | - - Killed in tunnel. The last case was a death in the tunnel leading from Spital Tongues Colliery to the River Tyne, which it was contended did not come within the province of this Act, and occasioned a correspondence with the Home Office, as absence of notice prevented me attending the inquest, which had some questionable circumstances about it |
| 16 Dec 1852 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | Examined |
| 10 Sep 1858 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | fall of band |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Spital Tongues Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Spital Tongues Colliery
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Gallery Images:
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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
- 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
- Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983
- Mineral Statistics for 1855 (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 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.
Pictures:
- Colliery picture copyright © by Newcastle City Council
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Spital Tongues Colliery |
| External sites | |
 | Information on the Victoria Tunnel used to carry coal to the staithes |
Further Research:
Research Notes for Spital Tongues Colliery
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