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Wylam Hills Colliery
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| Location: | Wylam |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1920's |
| Owners: | 1880s - W. Turnbull |
| 1910s - North Wylam Colliery Co. Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1882 - Coal (Landsale). |
| 1883 - Coal, Landsale. | |
| 1910 - Coal. | |
| 1921 - Coal. | |
| Employment: | 1910 - 17 (12 below, 5 surface) [Opened 1910] |
| 1915 - 61 (53 below, 8 surface) | |
| 1921 - 0 [Abandoned] | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1915 - Victoria Seam |
| 1921 - Brockwell, Victoria [Abandoned] | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Wylam Hills Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1880 - 6/4, 5/4, Yard, Brockwell seams abandoned |
1933, 12 Jan - Brockwell, Yard 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!
 | Hall, Wilkinson, 01 Oct 1870, aged 20, Putter, crushed by tubs | |||||
| Stephenson, John, 13 Jun 1913, aged 30, Carpenter, deceased was engaged in re-opening an old shaft; in order to hang a plumb line, he placed a 3-inch plank upon the walling across the middle of the shaft and over it, and at right angles a 1¼-inch plank; the latter overhung the former by 2 feet at one end; deceased turned around and thoughtlessly stepped back upon the unsupported end of the plank, which tipped up and allowed him to fall to the shaft bottom 48 feet below; he struck the shaft side and was killed | |||||
| 2 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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1870 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456) Where to find this report
- 1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Northern Division (No. 2) by J. R. R. Wilson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
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