Durham Mining Museum - Raven Colliery (UK) (original) (raw)
| Location: | Garnant12½ miles [20 km] N of Swansea |
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| Map Ref: | (Sheet 159 Swansea and Gower) SN688130, 51° 48' 0" N, 3° 54' 6" W |
| Opened: | 1855 |
| Closed: | 1935 |
| Owners: | J. Strick |
| Consolidated Anthracite Collieries, Ltd. | |
| Henderson's Welsh Anthracite Collieries, Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1896 - Coal: Anthracite. |
| Employment: | 1896 - 0 [Reopening] |
| 1923 - 288 (238 below, 50 surface) | |
| 1933 - 329 (265 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!
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| | | | Humphreys, Thomas, 28 Jul 1909, aged 41, Collier, Fall of side. At face ; while stooping to pick up a lump of coal, a piece of "clod," 4 feet by 3 feet, by a varied thickness of 10 inches to 5½ inches, fell upon him and killed him. He appears to have struck out a sprag which supported the overhanging clod, so as to allow space to work the coal away. Middle Vein. Safety lamps |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Raven Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Raven Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Swansea District (No. 11) by J. Dyer Lewis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1923 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
- 1933 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
- 1940 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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