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Thistle Flat Colliery
(See also Low Bitchburn Colliery)
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| Location: | Crook 8½ miles [14 km] SW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 92) NZ160343, 54° 42' 12" N, 1° 45' 6" W |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Owners: | 1850s - Joseph Pease, Joseph Whitwell Pease, & Joseph Pease & Co. |
| 1860s - John Sharp | |
| Output: | 1860 - Coal. |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1854 - 0 [Working] |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Thistle Flat Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1848 - Boring operations from the surface were in progress on Thistle Flatt estate, near Crook, proving the Brockwell Seam. |
1850 - A sinking was put down from the surface on the Wheal Bottom estate, near Crook, for the Thistle Flatts owners. |
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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!
 | Cummings, John, 10 Jul 1862, aged 44, Hewer, crushed by tubs drawn by a horse, lived 2 hours [Inquest: 12 Jul 1862] | |||||
|  | Ebden, William, 06 Feb 1865, Labourer on screens, crushed by a tub [More information ...] | ||||
| Fairweather, Joseph, 21 Aug 1857, fell down a staple [More information ...] | |||||
| | Kavender, John, 26 Oct 1850, Pumpman, fell down shaft [More information ...] | ||||
| Race, Robert, 15 Jun 1877, aged 46, Coke Worker, he was working at the Coke Ovens when he was crushed between a truck and a cabin wall whilst moving the truck | |||||
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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
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Thistle Flat Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Thistle Flat 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
- 1862 Mines Inspectors Report, Southern District by John J. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- Contributions by members of the Public
- 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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Further Research:
Research Notes for Thistle Flat Colliery
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