Shoreswood Colliery

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Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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	Shoreswood Colliery	Index	Shoreswood Colliery

Location:	nr. Berwick 5 miles [8 km] SSW of Berwick-upon-Tweed
Map Ref:	(Sheet 74 Kelso) NT957461, 55° 42' 32" N, 2° 4' 3" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:	1843
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1843
Pits:	Shaft details for Shoreswood Colliery
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1860 - Coal.
	1865 - Coal.
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Shoreswood Colliery

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Ingles, Thomas, 08 Apr 1873, (accident: 20 Mar 1873), aged 51, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Lyall, David, 21 Feb 1899, He was employed by a contractor to break up some old metal with dynamite and was supposed to have been killed by an explosion, but it transpired at the inquest that he fell from the engine bed. It occurred on the 21st February at the abandoned Shoreswood Colliery, near Berwick-on-Tweed [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

2 names found

1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Northumberland, North Durham, and Cumberland District by George William Southern, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Newcastle District (No. 3) by John L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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.