Durham Mining Disasters
Published on 16. October 2008
192 pages
978-1-78340-115-4 (ISBN)
Description
It is now over half a century since the last coalmining disaster to affect the lives and families of people living and working on what became known as the Great Northern Coalfield. This was the first area of Britain where mining developed on a large scale but at tremendous human cost. Mining was always a dangerous occupation, especially during the nineteenth century and in the years before nationalization in 1947. Safety was often secondary to profit. It was the disasters emanating from explosions of gas that caused the greatest loss of life, decimating local communities. In tight-knit mining settlements virtually every household might be affected by injury or loss of life, leaving widows and children with little or no means of support. At Haswell in 1844 95 men and boys perished; 164 died at Seaham in 1880 and 168 at West Stanley in 1909. This volume provides us with an account of these and all the other pit disasters in County Durham from the 1700s to the 1950s
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Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Other books in the series:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Kevin Keegan
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part One: The Early Years, 1705-1805
- Part Two: Children, Candles and Catastrophes, 1812-1850
- (1) Brandling Main, 1812
- (2) Herrington, 1812
- (3) Newbottle, 1815
- (4) Harraton, 1817
- (5) Ellison Main, 1819
- (6) Rainton, 1823
- (7) Newbottle, 1824
- (8) Jarrow, 1826
- (9) Stargate, 1826
- (10) Heworth, 1826
- (11) Temple Main, 1830
- (12) Springwell, 1833
- (13) Eppleton, 1836
- (14) St Hilda, 1839
- (15) Farnacres, 1840
- (16) Thornley, 1841
- (17) Stormont Main, 1843
- (18) Haswell, 1844
- (19) Jarrow, 1845
- (20) Hebburn, 1849
- (21) Wellington, 1850
- (22) Houghton, 1850
- Part Three: Fires, Fumes and Fatalities, 1851-1897
- (23) Washington, 1851
- (24) South Brancepeth, 1858
- (25) South Kelloe, 1859
- (26) Hetton Lyon's, 1860
- (27) Monkwearmouth, 1862
- (28) Pelton, 1866
- (29) Washington, 1867
- (30) Wheatley Hill, 1871
- (31) Seaham, 1871
- (32) New Seaham, 1880
- (33) Trimdon Grange, 1882
- (34) Tudhoe, 1882
- (35) Burns, 1882
- (36) Usworth, 1885
- (37) Margaret, 1885
- (38) Elemore, 1886
- (39) Brancepeth, 1896
- (40) East Hetton, 1897
- Part Four: The Final Years and Blood Still Stains the Coal, 1906-1951
- (41) Wingate Grange, 1906
- (42) Washington Glebe, 1908
- (43) Burns, 1909
- (44) Medomsley, 1923
- (45) Murton, 1942
- (46) Louisa, 1947
- (47) Easington, 1951
- (48) Eppleton, 1951
- Glossary
- Bibliography
