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Chilton Colliery
Ferryhill
54.670828, -1.570521
No. 1 Pit
Opened:
Closed:
1872
1966
Entry Created:
20 Jun 2022
Last Updated:
20 Jun 2022
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
South Durham Coal Co. (1879), Lord Eldon (1884), H. Stobart & Co. Ltd. (1900s), Pease & Partners Ltd. (1927), Dorman Long (1934), National Coal Board (1947)
Description (or HER record listing)
"Chilton Colliery was formerly worked by Pease & Partners, but was closed down by them in 1931, and was reopened by Dorman, Long & Company in 1934, when a considerable amount of reconstruction work was carried out. The present output is 950 tons a day from the Five-Quarter and Main Coal seams. The whole of the coal is machine mined, about two-thirds by Hardiax machines, and the remainder by pneumatic picks. There is a Sherwood Hunter washer of 120 tons per hr. capacity and a battery of 52 Simplex coke ovens. Over 50 per cent. of the coal won is coked, the balance going for works, gas and domestic account."
Iron & Coal Trades Review 1937 (via Durham Mining Museum)
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