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Witton Park Colliery
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| Location: | Witton-le-Wear 10 miles [16 km] SW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 92) NZ168307, 54° 40' 16" N, 1° 44' 22" W |
| Maps: |  1898 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
| 1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | Jun 1923 |
| Pits: | Corving Pit |
| William Pit | |
| Owners: | 1830s - Sir William Chaytor |
| 1880s - Witton Firebrick Co. Ltd. | |
| 1940s - Old Etherley Coal Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1860 - Coal. | |
| 1865 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| 1873 - Coal. | |
| 1888 - Coal. | |
| 1894 - Fireclay. | |
| 1896 - Fireclay. | |
| 1900 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1902 - Fireclay. | |
| 1905 - Fireclay. | |
| 1910 - Coal. Fireclay. | |
| 1921 - Coal. Fireclay. | |
| 1923 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay. | |
| 1927 - Coal: Coking, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1929 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1882 - 0 [Standing] |
| 1883 - 0 [Standing] | |
| 1883 - 6 | |
| 1894 - 7 (6 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1896 - 10 (8 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1900 - 10 (9 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1902 - 8 (7 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1905 - 13 | |
| 1910 - 29 (28 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1915 - 10 | |
| 1921 - 21 (20 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1923 - 13 (12 below, 1 surface) [Abandoned 6/23] | |
| 1927 - 53 (38 below, 15 surface) | |
| 1929 - 17 (14 below, 3 surface) [Abandoned 9/3/29] | |
| 1945 - 24 (14 below, 10 surface) | |
| 1945 - 4 | |
| Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1910 - Ganister Seam |
| 1915 - Ganister Seam | |
| 1921 - Ganister | |
| 1923 - Fireclay | |
| 1927 - Brockwell, Busty | |
| 1929 - Busty [Abandoned 9/3/29] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Witton Park Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1756 - Boring operations from the surface were in progress in the vicinity of Witton Castle, Witton-le-Wear. |
1764 - A series of bore-holes from the surface was put down on the Witton Castle estate. |
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1832 - A sinking was made below the Main Coal Seam in the Corving Pit, Witton Park Colliery ; no workable seams met with. |
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1834 - Borings were put down at the bottom of the old pit at Witton Park Colliery. |
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1929, 09 Mar - Busty, Brockwell seams 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!
 |  | Dinsdale, John, 09 Dec 1857, (accident: 01 Dec 1857), aged 58, he was working alongside a new gangway. In drawing a plank of wood along, he came too near the edge and fell backwards over to the ground below, about 22 feet. Some of his ribs and his right thigh were broken; he died on 9 December | ||||
| Heslope, C., 09 Mar 1860, aged 19, Putter, fall of top coal and clay | |||||
| Rees, John, 13 Nov 1852, aged 9, [Not Employed], fell from coal waggons | |||||
| | Robinson, Matthew, 30 May 1849, Furnaceman, he was accidentally suffocated [More information ...] | ||||
| Spence, James, 24 Dec 1895, (accident: 10 Dec 1895, 11:30 a.m., 4th hour of shift), aged 58, Foreman, head and bowels crushed, and legs bruised, by a fall of slag; died on the 24th | |||||
| 5 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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| 25 Nov 1852 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Witton Park Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Witton Park Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1860 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
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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.
- 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
- Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
- Victoria History of the Counties of England – Durham. Published in three volumes in 1907.
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Further Research:
Research Notes for Witton Park Colliery
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