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Vane's Hartley Colliery
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| Location: | Cockfield |
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| Pits: |  Shaft details for Vane's Hartley Colliery |
| Owners: | 1860s - R. Summerson & Co. |
| 1924 - North End Colliery Co. (Cockfield) Ltd., per W. Morrell | |
| 1920s - Watson Morrell | |
| Output: | 1865 - Coal. |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| 1925 - Coal: Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1925 - 17 (14 below, 3 surface) |
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| Seams Worked: | 1925 - Five Quarter |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Vane's Hartley Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1885 - Busty and Brockwell seam abandoned |
1929, 08 Aug - Five Quarter seam abandoned |
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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!
 | Alderson, Jonas, 01 Jan 1873, (accident: 13 Dec 1872), aged 10, Greaser, crushed by tubs | |||||
| Dixon, John, 22 Dec 1882, aged 34, Hewer, fall of coal while holing a jud | |||||
| Parkin, Joseph, 12 Feb 1871, aged 15, Driver, drawn up pulley, fell out of cage and down shaft [More information ...] | |||||
| 3 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.
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next to the name to see the web page.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621) Where to find this report
- 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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.
- Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
- Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
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Related Links:
| External sites | |
 | Gaunless Valley History Trust |
Further Research:
Research Notes for Vane's Hartley Colliery
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