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Waterhouses Colliery
Waterhouses
54.763608, -1.713512
Opened:
Closed:
1859
1966
Entry Created:
2 Aug 2022
Last Updated:
2 Aug 2022
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Joseph Pease & Partners (1859), National Coal Board (1947 -)
Description (or HER record listing)
"At the Waterhouses Colliery, which was sunk in 1856, are wrought the "Brockwell," 3 ft. thick, and the "Busty," 2 ft. 4 in. The "Yard" coal and the "Harvey" have recently been opened out. The output is all converted into coke, there being over 200 ovens here, and in all there are 600 men and boys employed. These seams are worked by four drifts."
Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham via Durham Mining Museum
Ordnance Survey, 1890s
Waterhouses Colliery, undated. Found on Durham Mining Communities, original source unknown.
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