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Mainsforth Colliery |
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Mainsforth Colliery |
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Mainsforth Colliery
Location: |
Ferryhill Station
7 miles [11 km] SSE of Durham
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Map Ref: |
(Sheet 93) NZ307316, 54° 40' 42" N, 1° 31' 26" W |
Maps: |
1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide |
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1951 map from the Guide to the Coalfields (Colliery Guardian) |
Opened: |
1872 |
Closed: |
06 Dec 1968 |
Pits: |
East Pit |
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West Pit |
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Shaft details for Mainsforth Colliery |
Owners: |
1873 - Mainsforth Coal Co. |
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1894 - Carlton Iron Co. |
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1923, Apr - Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
Output: |
1873 - Coal. |
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1910 - Coal: Manufacturing. |
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1915 - Coal: Manufacturing. |
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1921 - Coal: Manufacturing. |
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1925 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing. |
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1930 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing. |
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1935 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (508,809 tons) |
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1950 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1955 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1960 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1965 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Industrial, Steam. |
Employment: |
Year | Pit | Total | | Below | Above |
1902 | | 51 | | | 51 |
1902 | | Sinking |
1905 | | 161 | | 55 | 106 |
1905 | | Sinking |
1910 | | 957 | | 799 | 158 |
1915 | | 959 | | 779 | 180 |
1921 | | 1,675 | | 1,376 | 299 |
1925 | | 2,148 | | 1,780 | 368 |
1930 | | 2,031 | | 1,608 | 423 |
1935 | | 2,081 | | 1,625 | 456 |
1940 | | 2,249 | | 2,249 | |
1945 | | 2,054 | | 1,613 | 441 |
1947 | | 2,131 | | 1,650 | 481 |
1950 | | 2,163 | | 1,702 | 461 |
1955 | | 2,244 | | 1,731 | 513 |
1960 | | 1,924 | | 1,568 | 356 |
1965 | | 1,247 | | 1,034 | 213 |
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NCB Employment Figures
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Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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Seams Worked: |
1910 - Busty, Harvey, Maudlin |
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1915 - Busty, Harvey |
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1921 - Busty, Harvey |
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1925 - Busty, Harvey, Hutton |
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1930 - Busty, Harvey |
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1935 - Brockwell, Busty, Harvey |
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1950 - Brockwell, Busty, Harvey, Hutton |
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1955 - Brockwell, Busty, Harvey, Hutton |
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1960 - Brockwell, Busty, Harvey, Hutton |
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1965 - Bottom Busty, Low Main, Main Coal, Top Busty |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Mainsforth Colliery |
Notes: |
1877 - Mine abandoned and used as a rubbish dump |
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1900 - Shafts re-excavated and water removed from the workings |
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1910 - First coal drawn |
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1929 - Pit head baths opened |
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1936 - Shafts from Bishop Middleham Colliery used for riding men and materials |
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1960 - Brockwell ('S') seam abandoned |
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1963, Aug 30 - Explosion due to lightning strike, no injuries (pit on holiday) |
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1964 - Bottom Hutton ('L2'), Harvey ('N'), Main Coal or Yard ('G') seams abandoned |
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1968, Sep - Low Main seam flooded with water |
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1969 - Top Busty ('Q1'), Bottom Busty ('Q2') seams abandoned |
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Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Mainsforth Colliery |
Description
Mainsforth Colliery was sunk in 1872, and after working about four years was laid in, and is still idle. It is leased by the Carlton Iron Company.
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham
Mainsforth Colliery is the most recent development. It was sunk on the south-east corner of the royalty in 1877, and is now working the Hutton, Harvey, Busty and Brockwell seams and winding from one shaft; the output is 2,000 tons a day, about 40 per cent, being machine mined. All coal passing through 2½-in. screens, about 100 tons per hr., is washed.
Iron & Coal Trades Review 1937
The origins of the Mainsforth colliery date from 1873 when two shafts, the East and the West, were sunk 270ft to the Five Quarter seam. These workings were short-lived and by 1877 the mine was abandoned and the shafts used as a rubbish dump. The exact cause of the mine's demise is not clear and has been attributed both to the slackness in the coal trade due to the end of the Franco-Prussian war and the inundation of the pit
by water.
It was not until 23 years later that the site attracted the attention of the Carlton Iron Company who, having acquired the lease, re-excavated the abandoned shafts and de-watered the workings. The company the proceeded to widen and deepen the two shafts. The East pit, which was both the downcast and the coal drawing shaft, was deepened to the Harvey seam where an inset was constructed at 850ft. In anticipation of a return of the previous water problems the shaft was deepened a further 40ft to provide a sump, and when complete this shaft had a finished diameter of 14ft 6 inches.
The West shaft, the upcast, with a finished diameter of 14ft, was also deepened to the Harvey with an inset at 850ft, but in this case the sump was only 15ft deep. From the bottom of this shaft the owners bored down to prove the Busty and Brockwell seams.
Extracts taken from The Collieries of Durham, Volume 2
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!
| | | | | | Avery, Thomas, 07 Jun 1946, aged 22, Waggonway Man, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Bainbridge, Roger, 29 Nov 1916, aged 42, stuck on the head by a prop displaced by a fall of roof after a shot had been fired |
| | | | | | Bell, John Richard, 04 Feb 1941, aged 27, Colliery Mechanic, he was crushed between full trucks under the screens and died in the ambulance on his was to hospital; he and another man had gone to the bottom end of the screens for some coals; they passed between two staionary trucks, but as they retauned Bell was nipped by the buffers when the trucks moved; he suffered severe internal injuries |
| | | | | | Bell, Robert, 22 Jul 1887, [Not Employed - Railway Fireman], committed suicide by throwing himself down the shaft [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Berriman, J., 30 Aug 1937, aged 22, Putter, strain lifting tubs |
| | | | | | Billingham, Walter, 1944, aged 37, gassed [approximate date] |
| | | | | | Blakeman, William, 29 Apr 1915, (accident: 10 Nov 1911), aged 55, Hewer, died from arterio sclerosis, it was alleged that death was accelerated by straining himself in 1911 and an injury to his foot in 1912 |
| | | | | | Bland, John, 07 Mar 1933, (accident: 06 Mar 1933), aged 15, Driver, caught by tubs, Buried: York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Briscoe, William, 14 Mar 1918, (accident: 28 May 1918), aged 58, Sawyer, he was injured in the abdomen through a log of wood slipping from the saw, he later died in Sedgefield Asylum; the Jury brought in a verdict that death was brough about through an accidental injury received whilst following his employment |
| | | | | | Brown, David, 24 Feb 1926, (accident: 12 Apr 1924), aged 19, Driver, through slipping whilst lifting a tub |
| | | | | | Brown, James, 08 Dec 1950, aged 28, died while bulldozing coal from beneath a gantry to a stock pile. He was crushed between his machine and an overhead girder on the gantry [Date of inquest] |
| | | | | | Bryce, Arthur, 30 Dec 1931, aged 14, Screen Lad, caught in machinery, Buried: Chilton Cemetery |
| | | | | | Butterfield, N., 13 Nov 1942, aged 50, Stoneman, caught by tubs |
| | | | | | Byrne, J., 15 Dec 1919, aged 16, Landing lad, died as the result of injuries received when he was crushed by a tub which had ran amain |
| | | | | | Byrne, John, 15 Jul 1908, aged 14, Helper up, it is not quite evident what occurred in this case; he was either walking outbye in front of the pony and fell down and was run over, or he was crouching by the side of the road to allow the pony and tub pass him, and was there caught and carried along by the tub, Buried: Metal Bridge Cemetery |
| | | | | | Carr, Henry Edward, 12 Dec 1913, aged 36, Stoneman, deceased and his mate had to prepare for a headways gate to be turned off a bordways gate, in a seam 3 feet thick, and in which height was made by shooting up bottom; they had to get hold of four balks by a crossing balk; the props carrying the crossing balk were set up on the canch; the job was completed and only the temporary middle props had to be drawn; this was done, and in less than a minute the timbering collapsed, and let down a big fall of soft stone from the side of a 2 feet 6 inch fault; the prop under one end of the crossing balk had been set on stone shattered by shot firing; this gave way and the fatal accident, which obviously should not have occurred, followed |
| | | | | | Clarkson, James, 19 Oct 1925, aged 27, Cutter, crushed, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Coleman, Matthew, 28 Jan 1929, (accident: 25 Jan 1929), aged 38, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. Charles (RC) Churchyard, Tudhoe Village |
| | | | | | Conroy, Mark, 09 Sep 1930, aged 19, Putter, run over by tubs, brother of Michael who had been killed in the same pit a week earlier |
| | | | | | Conroy, Michael, 02 Sep 1930, aged 55, Hewer, fall of coal, brother of Mark who was killed in the same pit a week later |
| | | | | | Courtney, John, 1959, [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Cowen, Henry, 12 Oct 1929, (accident: 20 Jul 1929), aged 42, Banksman, crushed |
| | | | | | Craggs, William, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Crosby, R., 25 Sep 1937, (accident: 24 Sep 1937), aged 17, Banksman, crushed by engine |
| | | | | | Davison, R., 01 Aug 1934, aged 57, Drawer, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Dixon, Henry, 26 Sep 1910, aged 29, Hewer, being the first day of the quarter it was his first shift in the wide bord in which he was working. The total thickness of the seam was 8 feet including a stone band 2 feet 8 inches in the middle. A shot had been fired in the top coal about 2½ hours before the accident and had failed to bring down all the coal, so after hewing as much down as he could, he set a prop under the remainder and commenced to kirve in the bottom coal. While so engaged some coal fell away at a strongly marked "back" and canted out a prop set under the band, thereby causing the latter to fall on the deceased. It was not certain if there was only one jud prop set, but there should have been two, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Dobbin, Thomas, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Dobson, John George, 12 Oct 1923, aged 16, Driver, crushed by wagon, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Dring, Louis, 08 Mar 1945, (accident: 27 Feb 1945), aged 28, Filler, he was struck by a fall of stone which injured the big toe of his right foot, he died in Sedgefield Isolation Hospital from meningitus |
| | | | | | Dunn, N., 20 Jan 1931, aged 16, Landing Lad, crushed by tubs |
| | | | | | Farnaby, James, 21 May 1941, (accident: 26 Mar 1941), aged 33, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Flatman, Norman, 07 Feb 1950, aged 46, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Fox, W. A., 10 Apr 1931, aged 17, Datal, caught by rope |
| | | | | | Graham, William, 12 Oct 1921, aged 65, Under-manager, he was coming out of a drift in the Busty seam when he was struck by a runaway set |
| | | | | | Grainger, Ernest, 06 Nov 1923, aged 18, Datal, killed through a tram on which he was riding running amain, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor |
| | | | | | Gray, Ralph, 17 Mar 1911, aged 54, Hewer, the deceased and his marrow had just gone into their working place, a skirting 5 yards wide, having relieved the fore shift hewers; before either of them commenced to work a stone at the "fast" side of the working fell away between a slip and a small hitch running nearly parallel to it, and killed Gray; the stone fell from a greasy parting and knocked out a prop at the end of a pair of gears 4½ feet from the face; the distance fixed by the timbering rule was 3 feet, and had been reduced from 4½ feet a few months previously; if the fore shift hewers had carried out this rule before leaving the face the accident would very probably not have occurred |
| | | | | | Hardy, Harry, 01 May 1954, aged 45, he was killed when he fell down the shaft while doing repair work, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Hatman, N., , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Heathwaite, Ralph Kell, 06 Jun 1952, aged 43, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Hedley, Billy, 16 Dec 1964, aged 17, riding haul rope, Buried: Chilton Cemetery |
| | | | | | Heslington, John, 23 Aug 1920, (accident: 13 Aug 1920), aged 17, Off take lad, killed by a blow from the handle of a winch [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Higgins, Wilfred L., 20 Sep 1909, aged 17, Endless rope attendant, The rope was slipping through the forks on the tubs, so he put his weight on to the rope to press it down into the forks; the tubs were then hauled forward by the rope and he followed them up a kip, still pressing on the rope, to where an arrangement for lifting the rope out of the forks was placed. He kept hold of the rope too long and his head was caught between the rope and the arrangement for detaching it from the forks. Weighing on the rope as this boy was doing is an undesirable practice |
| | | | | | Hopps, Ernest, 04 Nov 1934, (accident: 03 Nov 1934), aged 20, Ropeman, died from injuries received, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Hopwood, George, 16 Jul 1918, (accident: 20 Jun 1918), aged 34, Hewer, died as a result of injuries received by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Horsley, James, 21 Feb 1874, aged 24, Labourer, scalded by steam whilst inside a boiler |
| | | | | | Hudson, William (Pat), 01 Aug 1940, aged 34, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth |
| | | | | | Hughes, Albert, 22 Feb 1934, aged 17, Driver, crushed |
| | | | | | Hughes, Richard, 01 Jun 1938, aged 24, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor |
| | | | | | Illingworth, Walter, 18 Aug 1936, (accident: 07 Feb 1935), aged 44, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Jackson, John, 31 Oct 1903, aged 73, Master Sinker, he had been at work and was making his way home for breakfast when he suddenly became ill and died on the roadside; death was due to heart failure |
| | | | | | Johnson, John George, 29 Aug 1944, aged 42, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth |
| | | | | | Jones, John, 22 Jul 1919, (accident: 19 Nov 1918), aged 39, he was injured on 19th November 1918, at the inquest a verdict of "death from valvular disease of the heart by accidental injuries to the right foot by a fall of stone". His father (also called John) was killed at Thrislington Colliery in 1908, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth |
| | | | | | Joyce, Jacob, 04 Jul 1916, (accident: 27 Jun 1916), Hewer, injured by picks [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Joyce, John Thomas, 24 Apr 1919, aged 17, Landing Lad, killed through being crushed between a tub and the side |
| | | | | | Joyce, John William, 09 Jan 1934, aged 37, Stoneman, he was waiting to go down the shaft at Bishop Middleham Colliery (the two pits were connected underground) when he suddenly collapsed and fell forward, despite efforts to revive him he was found to be dead |
| | | | | | Joyce, Joseph, 14 Mar 1935, aged 20, Putter, struck roof, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Kirkby, Thomas William, 08 Jun 1932, aged 50, Stone Packer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Chilton Cemetery |
| | | | | | Kirton, William, Jul 1909, (accident: 09 Apr 1908), Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone [More information ...] |
| | | | | | Lambert, John, 29 Aug 1952, aged 23, Filler, lived at East Howle, killed by a fall of stone, He had worked at the pit for 6 years. He left a widow and a three year old daughter |
| | | | | | Lavelle, Thomas, 10 Mar 1933, aged 47, Machine Man, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Chilton Cemetery |
| | | | | | Lawson, R. T., 15 Sep 1943, aged 34, Cutter, fractured skull |
| | | | | | Lee, Frederick, 24 Apr 1917, aged 30, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Loftus, Edward, 17 Nov 1925, aged 14, Trapper, accident whilst driving set of tubs |
| | | | | | Marshall, Horace William, 23 Mar 1929, aged 26, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Martin, Walter Lock, 21 Sep 1938, aged 33, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Byers Green, Churchyard of St. Peter the Apostle |
| | | | | | Mason, Ernest, 06 Feb 1945, (accident: 24 Jul 1944), Filler, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Mason, John M., 23 Feb 1942, aged 47, Cutter, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Mathews, Norman, 15 Dec 1921, aged 16, Datal, crushed by tubs |
| | | | | | Miller, Arthur, 14 Aug 1946, aged 23, Filler, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Mudd, Herbert, 21 Jan 1935, aged 52, he collapsed and died at work; he had just left the district where he was working to obtain some powder and as he was coming back he ws heard to fall |
| | | | | | Mulroy, Jack, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Mulroy, James, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Nunn, Philip, 08 Sep 1941, aged 61, Shifter, death was caused by 'over exertion' whilst working underground in the Busty seam |
| | | | | | Oyston, R., 29 Feb 1940, aged 14, Datal, caught by waggon |
| | | | | | Palmer, Arthur, 27 May 1931, aged 26, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Parker, James, 20 Jun 1944, aged 31, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Paul, J. W., 06 Mar 1937, (accident: 16 Feb 1936), aged 35, Hewer, died from injuries received |
| | | | | | Penwick, W. D., 28 Aug 1929, (accident: 16 Aug 1929), aged 20, Putter, died from injuries received |
| | | | | | Raisbeck, Thomas, 03 Sep 1912, aged 24, Hewer, he was engaged with his father in driving a jenkin by the side of an old bord; there is a treacherous band of metal about 2 feet thick halfway up the face of the coal, and this band is a source of great trouble in broken work; deceased was hewing, when a piece of the band came over from the face and struck his side; the unfortunate man did not think that he was seriously injured, but he died a few hours later |
| | | | | | Richards, George, 21 May 1926, (accident: 30 Jul 1922), aged 35, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Ross, George, 1952, [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Seymour, Norman, 24 Jul 1941, aged 30, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Sharp, Harold, 25 Jun 1913, aged 15, Token Lad, deceased was employed taking tokens off tubs after they had passed through a tippler; there was ample room where he worked; it is surmised that he had dropped a token and whilst stooping to pick it up was struck on the head by a tub |
| | | | | | Slater, William Taylorson, 03 Aug 1921, aged 16, Windlass Boy, caught between tubs and the side, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Snaith, John Ord, 16 Oct 1940, (accident: 15 Oct 1940), aged 58, he was found lying beside the wagon track in the pit, his head was cut and his lamp lay a few feet away in the mud; it was thought he had been struck by a set which had passed through the area five hours earlier; he died the next day in Durham County Hospital from verebral haemorrhage |
| | | | | | Storey, Harry, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Taylor, Robert, 18 Oct 1956, aged 38, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor |
| | | | | | Todhunter, William Henry, 13 May 1908, aged 33, Stoneman, he was killed by a big side waver which came off at a slip at a hitch; the fall knocked out a chock, and canted out some baulks, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Troup, Michael Rivers, 22 Jan 1937, (accident: 27 May 1936), aged 59, Hewer, explosion, Buried: Tudhoe |
| | | | | | Vasey, Jonathan, 28 Sep 1907, aged 16, Driver, when driving outbye the first tub of his set up-ended and he was fatally crushed between it and his pony |
| | | | | | Walker, Thomas Henry, 11 Jul 1923, aged 29, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Walton, Joseph, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Ward, David, 1945, aged 29, [details unknown], Buried: St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Kirk Merrington |
| | | | | | Ward, W., 03 Jan 1933, aged 31, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof |
| | | | | | Watson, William Kipling, 02 Jun 1924, 9.30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 31, Coal-cutter Operator, deceased was operating a percussive coal cutter which was undercutting a seam 2 ft. 6 ins. thick, when a fall of roof occurred and killed him outright. The stone fell from two hidden slips, one of which was near the machine standard. The vibration of the machine probably released the stone at this slip. Three pairs of gears were canted out, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | White, A., 08 Jul 1942, aged 65, Wasteman |
| | | | | | Williams, John, 21 Aug 1924, aged 50, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Wilson, George Albert, 22 Mar 1928, aged 52, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: Chilton Cemetery |
| | | | | | Wilson, Richard, , [details unknown] |
| | | | | | Wilson, Walter M., 20 Jul 1923, aged 21, Hewer, fall, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Winter, Ralph, 16 Dec 1933, (accident: 07 Dec 1933), aged 16, Driver, fractured spine, Buried: Rock Road Cemetery, Spennymoor |
| | | | | | Wood, -, 1940, killed in an accident with a cutting machine [date unknown] |
| | | | | | Wood, B., 07 May 1947, aged 43, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone |
| | | | | | Young, Edward, 30 Jun 1917, aged 31, Buried: Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill |
| | | | | | Young, George William, 16 Oct 1942, aged 53, Winding Engine Cleaner, he had started to whitewash the crank pit during a lull in coal drawing, later, William Oyston was given a signal to draw more coal and shouted to Young to make sure he was clear of the pit; He heard a bump, stopped the engine and then found him lying in a pool of blood; Young's body was recovered from between the side of the rope drum and the engine pillars |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Mainsforth Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Mainsforth Colliery
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Sources:
- NEEMARC - Ref: NUMDA/1/6/40, D.M.A. Minutes, Circulars etc. for 1915 (two volumes: covers Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec)
- NEEMARC - Ref: NUMDA/1/6/43, D.M.A. Minutes, Circulars etc. for 1918 (two volumes: covers Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec)
- NEEMARC - Ref: NUMDA/6/1/1/1, Reports of the Compensation Department, Vol I covering Sep 1918-Dec 1919
- 1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1874 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1216) Where to find this report
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1909 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), Durham District (No. 3) by A. D. Nicholson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 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
- 1919 List of Mines - from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide
- 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Northern Division (No. 2) by T. Greenland Davies, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
- 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
- 1935 Mines Inspectors Report
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory published by Louis Cassier Co. Ltd.
- 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1947 The Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
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- 1955 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1960 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- 1965 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3
- Collieries of Durham (Volume 2), David Temple, TUPS Books, ISBN 1-901237-01-X
- Contributions by members of the Public
- Durham Miners' Association, Compensation Department, Minutes of Arbitration Committee - January 1920 to December 1921. Vol II. [DMM Ref: L-01629 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
- Headstone(s) and Memorial in York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor
- Headstone(s) in Byers Green Churchyard
- Headstone(s) in Chilton Cemetery
- Headstone(s) in Duncombe Cemetery, Ferryhill
- Headstone(s) in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Cornforth
- Headstone(s) in Merrington Lane Cemetery, Spennymoor
- Headstone(s) in Metal Bridge Cemetery
- Headstone(s) in St. Charles (R.C.) Churchyard, Tudhoe
- Headstone(s) in St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Kirk Merrington
- History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.
- Profile of Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. printed in The Iron & Coal Trades Review in 1937
- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
- Banner picture copyright © by Kev Duncan. The Mainsforth and Dean and Chapter banners are held at Ferryhill Town Hall.
- Colliery picture from old postcard
Related Links:
| On this site |
| Newspaper articles |
| Article from Coal Magazine (May 1958) — "Fifty Years Wed" |
| Article from Colliery Engineering (July 1931) regarding Mainsforth Colliery |
| Pictures in the Gala section of the Lodge Banner at the Miners' Gala |
| Awards for Bravery |
| Pictures in the Gallery section of Mainsforth Colliery |
| External sites |
| A Virtual Tour of Ferryhill |
Further Reading:
- Collieries of Durham (Volume 2), David Temple, TUPS Books, ISBN 1-901237-01-X
- Banners of the Durham Coalfield, Norman Emery, 1998, Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7509-1708-3, provides a brief history of the colliery along with the history of the associated Miners Lodge Banner
- The Coal Mining and Ironstone Mining Properties of Dorman Long, published by Peter Tuffs
Further Research:
Research Notes for Mainsforth Colliery
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