This page is dedicated to the memory of the men who perished in our local collieries. The four collieries included here are: Lambton D Pit, Lumley Sixth Pit, Lady Ann Pit and Houghton Gate Pit. The Durham Mining Museum's (DMM) website is an invaluable resource but does not always give the name of the pit in which the fatality occurred - this is rectified here. This page is a work-in-progress and as such, the webmaster would like to hear from anyone with more names to include on the lists below. So far, the period covered is up to the 1950's. If you would like more information on any of the men below, please contact the webmaster via the email address on the Home Page of this website.
Lambton D Pit
1946: James Foster
1943: Thomas P. Corfield
1942: Thomas Henry Weir
1942: William Walton Renshaw
1940: John Bell
1939: Alexander Charles Maddison
1938: Thomas Atkins
1937: Frederick Iley
1936: Joseph Dobson
1935: John Robert Dryden
1935: Robert Richardson
1935: William Proudlock Robson
1934: George Gordon
1932: George Henry Bullen
1931: George Ellison
1931: Thomas Henderson
1930: Thompson McKenzie
1930: William House
1929: Robert Swinney
1928: Robert Carr
1925: Joseph Baker
1923: George Robert Brown
1922: Charles W. Watt
1922: Edward Lewis
1921: Barrass Robinson Pratt
1919: John Cecil Humphrey
1919: John Thomas Etherington
1918: Isaac Henderson
1913: Walter Goodhall
1911: William Baker
1908: Robert Jones
1908: William Welshaw / Wilshaw
1907: Thomas Weeks
1899: John Reed
1894: James Clark Murtagh
1881: Joseph Reed
Lumley Sixth Pit
1955: Joseph William Pimlett
1952: Thomas Robson Ramshaw
1948: Hugh Gibson
1947: William Nelson
1947: Ernest Watson
1940: Robert Stavers
1937: Henry Taylor
1937: Matthew Robson Pringle
1937: Henry Burdon Taylor
1932: Robert Nelson
1930: John Winn (reported as Joseph Wynn in Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail (15 January 1930) and Chester-le-Street Daily Chronicle (17 January 1930))
1930: William George Blake
1927: Henry Willis Carr
1922: George Grant
1922: Herbert Willis
1917: Foster Hartis
1915: J. Muckleroth
1915: Thomas Howe (note: d. 1915 following an accident in 1911)
1914: John Briscoe
1913: Thomas Wilson
1912: Robert Dodds
1910: Robert William Williamson
1907: Benjamin Bowater
1907: Henderson Lowerson
1904: Ernest Mason
1903: John Thomas Shields
1901: James Lowery
1900: David Storey
1899: James Lowerson
1898: William Thompson
1887: John Milloin
1884: James Howe Scott
1884: George Moody
187?: William Davison (date on headstone (LC(1)) unclear)
1878: Thomas Stoper
1872: John Turner
1871: William Turner
1866: William Ferguson
1866: George Harbottle
 Lady Ann Pit
1935: George Best Dick
1933: Joseph Lydiatt
1931: Thomas Henderson
1930: William Glendenning
1918: William Moran
1918: Arthur William Nicholson
1916: John Allison
1914: William Wilson
1906: Ralph Gleason / Gleeson
1904: Ralph Barron
1903: W. Brown
1901: Ralph Young
1899: William Brown
1899: Robert Balmer
1887: Sampson Bateman
1881: Richard Hamilton
1875: Frederick White
1853: Samuel Tulip
Houghton Gate Pit
1817: George Henderson
1817: Thomas Dawson
George Pit, Lumley
1842: Joseph Hall
1824: On 25 October 1824, an explosion occurred in this pit in which fourteen men and boys lost their lives. Their names are not recorded but if anyone has further information on the names of the victims please contact the webmaster via the email address on the Home page of this website.
1819: On 23 October 1819, an explosion occurred in this pit in which eleven men and boys lost their lives. Their names are not recorded but if anyone has further information on the names of the victims please contact the webmaster via the email address on the Home page of this website.