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Whitehouse Colliery

Location:	Witton Gilbert
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - Witton Gilbert Colliery Co. Ltd.
Output:	1921 - Coal.
	1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household.
	1935 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1950 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1955 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1960 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:	1921 - 21 (18 below, 3 surface)
	1925 - 25 (21 below, 4 surface)
	1930 - 24 (20 below, 4 surface)
	1935 - 32 (26 below, 6 surface)
	1945 - 42 (35 below, 7 surface)
	1950 - 45 (42 below, 3 surface)
	1955 - 35 (30 below, 5 surface)
	1960 - 35 (30 below, 5 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1921 - Low Main
	1925 - Low Main
	1930 - Harvey
	1935 - Hutton, Low Main
	1950 - Low Main
	1955 - Low Main
	1960 - Low Main

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!

						Ryan, John, 30 Oct 1944, (accident: 20 Jan 1944), aged 35, Hewer, he was hewing in the headways when deputy George Simpson walked by and heard a small fall of stone, he found Ryan in a sitting position with his head pinned down by a stone about 4 feet long and 15 inches thick, he was released and taken out on a stretcher; he died at Durham County Hospital, due to exhaustion and toxaemia caused by a severed spinal cord

						1 name 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. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle) and are marked with .

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.

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
1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).