	West Durham Wallsend Colliery	Index	West Durham Wallsend Colliery

West Durham Wallsend Colliery

Location:	Shildon 10½ miles [17 km] SSW of Durham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 93) NZ216264, 54° 37' 56" N, 1° 39' 55" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1890s - West Durham Wallsend Coal Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
	1902 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
	1905 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing.
Employment:	1894 - 25 (12 below, 13 surface) [Sinking]
	1896 - 52 (42 below, 10 surface)
	1900 - 211 (183 below, 28 surface)
	1902 - 321 (284 below, 37 surface)
	1905 - 124 (106 below, 18 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Five Quarter, Three Quarter
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for West Durham Wallsend Colliery

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!

						Caygill, John, 26 Jul 1904, aged 14, Rapper and Telephone Boy, he had come out of his telephone cabin by the side of the engine plane without a light and fell over the hauling rope, and was carried and fatally crushed against a sheave stand, he had a lamp in the cabin

						1 name found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of West Durham Wallsend Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to West Durham Wallsend Colliery

Credits

Sources:

1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department