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Tyne Main Colliery
also known as Friar's Goose Colliery
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| Location: | Friar's Goose, Gateshead 1½ miles [2 km] SE of Newcastle |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ266620, 54° 57' 7" N, 1° 35' 5" W |
| Maps: |  1807 map from "The Picture of Newcastle Upon Tyne…", published in 1807 by D. Akenhead |
| 1896 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey |
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| Opened: | 1798 |
| Closed: | 1926 |
| Pits: | Engine Pit |
| William Pit, locn: (Sheet 88) NZ274631, opened: 1841, sinking: 14 Jan 1841 | |
| Shaft details for William Pit |
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| Owners: | 1850s - Losh & Co. |
| 1860s - George Elliott & Co. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1855 - Coal. | |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| 1854 - 0 [Working] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Tyne Main Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1798 - The Engine Pit, Tyne Main Colliery, bored below the thill of the Low Main Seam, proving the Beaumont and Denton Low Main. |
1841, Jan 14 - Commenced to sink the William Pit, Tyne Main Colliery, 14 January, from the surface to the Low Main Seam. |
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1842 - The High Main Seam being abandoned and tubbed off at Tyne Main Colliery in this year, an arrangement was entered into with the owners of Felling, Walker, Wallsend, Willington and Heaton Collieries, under which they contributed to the cost of keeping the large pumping engine at Friar's Goose at work to prevent the water from passing to the dip. The quantity of water raised by the engine at Friar's Goose Pit in 1849 amounted to 1,170 gallons per minute. |
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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!
 |  | Astley, Thomas, 01 Aug 1919, aged 38, fell down shaft [More information ...] | ||||
| | Caldwell, John, 26 Apr 1844, fall of roof, married with a family [More information ...] | ||||
| Charlton, Joseph, 17 Jan 1865, Miner, suffocated by gas [More information ...] | |||||
| Dorman, John, 22 Jul 1875, aged 41, Hewer, Chester Ward Coroner's Inquest, place: Gateshead, cause: fall of stone, Bensham Seam Tyne Main Colliery (DRO Ref: COR/C/2/368) | |||||
| Harrison, John, 12 Apr 1883, aged 33, Shaftman, fell out of kibble [More information ...] | |||||
| Heslop, Thomas, 17 Jan 1865, Miner, suffocated by gas [More information ...] | |||||
| | Kears, Robert, 06 Feb 1843, aged 19, He had been ascending the shaft at Friar's Goose Colliery in a corf, when two men at work below heard something fall. One of them ascended supposing that some stones had fallen down, but finding that not to be the case, descended again, when the deceased was discovered lying dead at the bottom of the shaft. It was supposed he had been thrown out of the corf by its becoming entangled with the "rapper-rope", which was broken, [date of inquest] | ||||
| Logan, Patrick, 21 Jul 1874, aged 17, Helper Up, fall of stone, caused by a tub getting off the rails and knocking out a prop | |||||
| Morrison, William, 26 Dec 1870, aged 52, Onsetter, fall down shaft | |||||
| Pitt, William, 18 Mar 1861, aged 68, Miner, fell out of cage | |||||
| Stoker, Thomas, 17 May 1859, aged 14, overcome by the gas in an outbuilding | |||||
| 11 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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| 28 Jul 1852 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | |
| 26 Jul 1858 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | collision of tubs |
| 14 Sep 1858 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | Early in the morning at Friar's Goose Colliery, a young boy by sheer thoughtlessness and anxiety to get down to his work, ran into the mouth of the working shaft, although many persons were assembled around the pit. The cage was still at the bottom of that portion of the shaft into which he precipitated himself. |
| 17 Jan 1865 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | choke damp, More information ... |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Tyne Main Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Tyne Main 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
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456) Where to find this report
- 1874 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1216) Where to find this report
- 1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Newcastle-on-Tyne District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 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
- Contributions by members of the Public
- 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.
- 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.
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Related Links:
| On this site | |
| | Newspaper articles |
| | Evidence given to the 1842 Children's Employment Commission |
| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Tyne Main Colliery |
| | Article in the Transactions of the Mining Engineers |
Further Reading:
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3, provides a brief history of the colliery along with the history of the associated Miners Lodge Banner
Further Research:
Research Notes for Tyne Main Colliery
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