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Whites Cut Colliery

(See also Naworth Colliery)

Location:

Midgeholme
9½ miles [15 km] NW of Alston

Map Ref:

(Sheet 86) NY634589, 54° 55' 24" N, 2° 34' 16" W

Maps:

1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian)

Opened:

Closed:

1925

Owners:

1910s - Naworth Coal Co.

1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)

Output:

1915 - Coal: Household.

1921 - Coal: Household, Steam.

1923 - Coal: Coking, Household.

1924 - Coal: Household.

1925 - Coal: Household.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1915	78	68	10
1921	108	85	23
1923	111	84	27
1924	72	51	21
1925	Abandoned 1925
1950	39	34	5

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1915 - Little Limestone Coal, Three Quarter

1921 - Little Limestone Coal, Slag, Three Quarter

1923 - Three Quarter, Wellsyke

1924 - Wellsyke

1925 - Wellsyke [Abandoned 1925]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Whites Cut Colliery

Notes:

1926 - Wellsyke seam abandoned

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.

Names of those killed at this colliery

No names found.

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Whites Cut Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Whites Cut Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1918 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department