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Whitley Colliery

Location:	Whitley Bay 8 miles [13 km] NE of Newcastle
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ355717, 55° 2' 19" N, 1° 26' 40" W
Maps:	1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	A Pit, sinking: 16 Apr 1817
	Shaft details for A Pit
	B Pit
	Shaft details for B Pit
	Engine Pit, sinking: 11 Oct 1819
	Shaft details for Engine Pit
Owners:	1880s - J. Carr & others
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Whitley Colliery
Notes:	1880 - High Main, Yard seams abandoned - Unprofitable

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

1st

May

1835

Corf improperly hooked, 6 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Clavering, John, 13 Apr 1841, Under-Viewer, explosion of firedamp, buried on 17th Apr 1841, Buried: Tynemouth General Cemetary [More information ...]
						Hutchinson, George, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]
						Latimer, George, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]
						Latimer, Robert, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]
						Noble, Mark, 27 Jan 1880, aged 49, Hewer, fall of stone from the roof
						Robson, John, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]
						Shotton, -, 25 Oct 1837, Enginewright, killed by falling down the Engine Pit at Whitley Colliery — he was working in the shaft in the loop, without having the clippas keep fastened down. Pressing with his feet against a pump they were going to draw and his back against the brattice, he had lifted the loop out of the clippas, without being aware of it, and laying his weight upon it, he instantly fell to the bottom, and was dashed to pieces. A young man was in a loop above him, and reminded him that the clippas was open — he said he was aware of it but shortly afterwards fell (NEIMME Ref: Bud-48-7-81)
						Symm, Robert, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]
						Young, George, 01 May 1835, killed in the 1835 disaster, fell down shaft, hook not properly placed in the bow of the corf [More information ...]

						9 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Whitley Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Whitley Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903) Where to find this report
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897
Pigot & Co.'s Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire. Published in 1834
Researchers at North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (N.E.I.M.M.E.)