A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Commenced to sink at Pittington Colliery, 

 below the Five Quarter Seam down to the Main 

 Coal Seam. 



Commenced sinking in the Minor Pit, Hetton 

 Colliery, below the Main Coal Seam, down to 

 the Hutton Seam. 



i. Boring operations were commenced 

 at Thrushwood, near Evenwood. 



Borings were put down from the thill of the 

 High Main Seam to below the Low Main Seam 

 at the C Pit, Hebburn Colliery ; at Pittington 

 Colliery, below the thill of the High Main to the 

 Maudlin Seam ; from the bottom of the Adolphus 

 Pit, North Pittington Colliery, proving the Three 

 Quarter and Five Quarter Seams ; and in the 

 North Pit, Rainton Colliery, below the thill of 

 the Low Main Seam, to prove the Hutton Seam. 



Commenced to sink the A and B Pits, Spring- 

 well Colliery, 8 May ; reached the Hutton Seam 

 and finished sinking operations, 24 February, 

 1824. 



E or Deep Pit, Jarrow Colliery, was sunk 

 from the High Main to the Low Main Seam. 



The Staple Pit, Pontop Pike Colliery, was 

 sunk below the Brass Thill to the Hutton Seam. 



The Meadows West Pit, West Rainton, was 

 commenced on i June, and reached the Hutton 

 Seam, and finished sinking on 12 June, 1824. 



1822. A boring was put down 205 yards 

 south from Towneley shaft by Howden Pickering 

 to prove the Main Coal Seam. 



1823. The Alexandria Pit, Rainton Colliery, 

 was commenced on 22 October, and reached the 

 Hutton Seam and finished sinking operations on 

 4 August, 1824. 



A bore-hole was put down below the Main 

 Coal Seam in the High Pit at Ferryhill, and bor- 

 ing operations by Coulson were in progress in 

 the vicinity of Dalden Ness Point, near Seaham, 

 at the site of the intended harbour. 



Began to sink Houghton Colliery, belonging to 

 the earl of Durham, 29 April ; finished sump 

 below the Hutton Seam in April, 1827. 



1824. The Ouston B Pit was sunk from the 

 surface to the Hutton Seam. 



A bore-hole was put down at this colliery at 

 the bottom of the staple sunk below the thill 

 of the Hutton Seam, proving the Harvey Seam ; 

 boring operations were in progress on High 

 Downs estate, Hetton, on the Nunstainton estate, 

 and at Brandon. 



A staple was sunk in the Black Fell Water 

 Drift in the Centre Pit, Team Colliery, from the 

 Six Quarter down to below the Low Main 

 Seam. This pit was used for many years as the 

 upcast furnace shaft to ventilate the whole of 

 the extensive workings of the Team Colliery. 



sink on 23 May, and was put down to the 

 Hutton Seam. 



A bore-hole was put down in the Pittington 

 Old Lansdale Pit worked by Croudace, Hudson, 

 and others, proving the Low Main, Brass Thill, 

 and Hutton Seams, and one was put down below 

 the High Main Seam, Manor Wallsend Colliery, 

 to prove the Yard Coal and Bensham Seam. 



The Church or New Engine Pit, Manor 

 Wallsend, now called Saint Hilda Colliery, South 

 Shields, was sunk from the surface to the Harvey 

 Seam. 



1826. Boring operations were commenced at 

 Etherley, and on Deanery estate, near Bishop 

 Auckland. 



A series of borings from the surface were in 

 progress in the vicinity of West Auckland Colliery, 

 to prove the depth and extent of the sand-bed. 



Commenced to sink Mr. Russell's Moorsley 

 Winning on 19 April, from the surface to the 

 Hutton Seam ; finished sinking operations on 

 28 May, 1828. 



Commenced to sink from the surface the Lon- 

 donderry Pit, North Pittington Colliery, 3 April ; 

 reached Hutton Seam and finished sinking ope- 

 rations on 19 June, 1828. 



1827. A pit was sunk at Coxhoe Colliery 

 below the Five Quarter Seam down to the Main 

 Coal Seam, and a boring put down to the level 

 of the Brockwell Seam. 



A bore-hole was commenced in Quarrington 

 Colliery from the thill of the Main Coal Seam, 

 proving the Hutton Seam. This boring was con- 

 tinued in 1827, proving the Harvey Seam, but 

 nothing except thin and worthless coals below it. 



The Borehole Pit, Coxhoe Colliery, recom- 

 menced sinking down to the Harvey Seam on 30 

 June, and was sunk 1 1 fathoms past the Harvey 

 Seam, but was stopped on 14 January, 1830, 

 without meeting with workable coal. 



1828. Boring operations from the surface 

 were in progress in the neighbourhood of Sher- 

 burn, near Durham, proving the Five Quarter 

 Seam ; a series of borings was started on Sir P. 

 Musgrave's estate, near Saint Helen's Auckland, 

 from surface, proving the Main Coal or Brock- 

 well Seam, and borings were put down below the 

 thill of the Stone Coal Seam in the Little Pit at 

 Winlaton, by Thomas Cheeseman and Partners, 

 on Great Chilton estate, and at Knitsley, where 

 nothing was found worth working. 



Whickham Pit, Coundon Colliery, sunk. 



1829. Northern Pit, Eldon Colliery, com- 

 menced to sink on 20 August, and was put down 

 to the Main Coal Seam. 



A bore-hole was put up over from the Main 

 Coal at Copley Bent, Butterknowle, January. 



1825. George Pit, Elemore Colliery, was 1830. Commenced on 3 March, to sink the 

 sunk. Jane Pit, near Great Eppleton, began to Engine shaft, Tanfield Lea Colliery ; reached 



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