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Thornley Colliery

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Colliery, opened in 1835 and closed on 9th January 1970. It was originally owned by John Gully and Partners before passing in to the ownership of Sir William Chaytor and Company. Further owners include the Thornley Coal Company (Thomas Wood, Gully, Chaytors, Burrell) in the 1850s, the London Steam Colliery and Coal Company from 1865, the Original Hartlepool Collieries Company (renamed from London Steam Colliery and Company) from 1868 and the Weardale Iron and Coal Company Limited from 1885. In 1947 the mine was nationalised and taken over by the National Coal Board. This post medieval colliery is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. On later photography the colliery has been levelled.

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D72464

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People	Burrell, Gully, Wood, Chaytors
Organisations	Thornley Coal Company, Weardale Iron And Coal Company Limited, London Steam Colliery And Coal Company, John Gully And Partners, London Steam Colliery And Company, National Coal Board, William Chaytor And Company, Original Hartlepool Collieries Company
Keywords	Expand Thornley Coal Company Thomas Wood, Original Hartlepool Collieries Company, National Coal Board, Sir William Chaytor, Coal Company Limited, London Steam Colliery, post medieval colliery, Thornley Colliery, 9th January, Further owners, Weardale Iron, aerial photographs, later photography, John Gully, Partners, ownership, Chaytors, Burrell, 1850s, mine, earthwork

Thornley Colliery source ref records

k2p prn	her id	ref no	ref originator	ref date	ref title	ref note
D72464	3269464	5	Linsley, S	2017	Engineering Miscellany: mainly Mechanical, and mainly North East England	p77
D72464	3269464	4	Linsley, S M	2017	Durham Coal Mines – Notes and Gazetteer	p104, p139
D72464	3269464	3	Instone, E; Cranstone, D	1994	Monuments Protection Programme (MPP) The Coal Industry: Step 3 Reports, Durham	Durham 17
D72464	3269464	2	Unknown		Historic England Aerial Photographs Collection	RAF/540/642 3320 10-DEC-1951
D72464	3269464	1	Friends of Durham Mining Museum	1999	Durham Mining Museum Website	http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/t002.htm

Thornley Colliery event records

	k2p prn	her id	desc	doi number	doi website
	D72464	3269464	Aggregate areas in County Durham Archaeological Assessment (ALSF) Project 2006 – 2007; Archaeological Research Services Ltd		http://doi.org/10.5284/1058257

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Terms

Term	Description
Colliery	This is another word for a coal mine. It includes all the buildings and machinery on the surface, as well as all the passages beneath the ground.
Earthwork	These are archaeological banks and ditches, bump and humps in the landscape as they survive. They might stand only a few centimetres above ground level, or be elaborate large-scale constructions, such as a [motte and bailey] castle.
Post medieval	See [post-medieval].