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Whitechapel Colliery

Location:

Haydon Bridge
26 miles [42 km] E of Sunderland

Map Ref:

(Sheet 86, 87, OL43) NZ806648

Maps:

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

Closed:

22 Jun 1935

Owners:

1910s - Haydon Bridge Coal Co.

Output:

1921 - Coal: Steam.

1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.

1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1921	46	32	14
1925	183	161	22
1930	161	130	31
1935	102	82	20
1935	Abandoned 6/35

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Seams Worked:

1921 - Little Limestone

1925 - West Tyne Main

1930 - Little Limestone

1935 - Little Limestone [Abandoned 6/35]

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Whitechapel Colliery

Notes:

1935, 22 Jun - Little Limestone seam abandoned

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Robinson, Alexander, 09 Dec 1928, aged 31, killed by a fall of stone

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Whitechapel Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Whitechapel Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
The Times Newspaper