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Windy Nook Quarry (Sandstone)

Location:	Gateshead 2½ miles [4 km] SE of Newcastle
Map Ref:	(Sheet 88) NZ277606, 54° 56' 21" N, 1° 34' 3" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Richard Kell and Co., Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Sandstone.
	1897 - Sandstone.
	1905 - Sandstone.
	1922 - Sandstone.
Employment:	1896 - 83 (74 below, 9 surface)
	1897 - 88 (81 below, 7 surface)
	1905 - 129 (122 below, 7 surface)
	1922 - 68 (4 below, 64 surface)

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!

						Wood, Adam, 05 Jan 1914, aged 43, Stone Sawer, deceased attended to some stone sawing frames; although he was an experienced man he had probably forgotten to grease the bearings during the breakfast time; he went later, whilst the machinery was in motion, on to a plank 10 feet 6 inches above the floor, and his clothing caught upon the revolving shaft; he was whirled around and injured so severely that he died the same night

						1 name found

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Credits

Sources:

1896 List of Quarries
1897 List of Quarries
1905 List of Quarries
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023), Northern Division (No. 2) by J. R. R. Wilson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian