Historical  events IN THE DURHAM AREA

 

YEAR

EVENT
1749 - 1750 John Neasham sinks mine at Success (Philadelphia)

1810

 Sinking of coal mine at Hetton by John Lyons

1813

 Newbottle wagon way build by John Neasham from the Newbottle Collieries to the river Wear via Hasting Hill

1815

·      Dr Clancy of Sunderland invented the safety lamp and used it at Herrington Mill pit.

·      2nd June - explosion at Success pit -57 lives lost.

·      A loco boiler explosion at Philadelphia 18 killed 50 others severely scalded.

1816

·      First coal drawn from the Dorothea colliery

·      Nicholson’s and Plain pit Chilton Moor opened

1817

·      Explosion at Plain pit 27 lost

1819

·      August 15 t h   John King hung for the murder of James Hamilton in a cabin at the colliery staithes Newbottle

1820

·      Dec - Hetton Lyons colliery is sunk

1821

·      Hetton staithes railway via Copt hill and Warden Law opened

1822

·      March 18th  Henry Anderson a pitman hung, for rape on Sarah Armstrong at Old Pensher 

1823

·      Houghton colliery sunk finished 1827

·      Explosion at Plain pit 53 lives lost men and boys

1824

·      Erection of work house William Street

1825

·      Explosion at the Dolley 11 lives lost

·      Eppleton colliery sunk (Hutton seam) finished 1937

1828

·      Explosion at Houghton   colliery 7 lives lost

1831

·      26th Oct to April 1832 Cholera in Sunderland and surrounding area

1832

·      Explosion at Philadelphia Colliery 12 killed 8 were workmen and 4 members of the Selton family including 1 adult and 3 children

1834

·      Gas works in Houghton opened

1836

·      Explosion at Hetton colliery 20 lives lost

1838

·      Victoria Bridge build at Pensher is opened

1844

·      Pensher Monument foundation stone laid

1850

·      Explosion at Houghton colliery 26 lives lost

1853

·      Cholera in Houghton

·      Pensher to Sunderland passenger line opened.

1860

·      Explosion Hetton colliery 22 lives lost

1863

·      New Herrington School build by St Cuthbert’s Church

1865

·      Opening of Lambton School Newbottle

1871

·     First miner's gala held on 12th August in Durham

1872

·      February 17th abolition of the yearly miner's bond

1874

·      New Herrington colliery sunk

1885

·      Explosion at Houghton colliery 12 lives lost

·      J Wilson (Houghton Le Spring) first elected member of parliament from D.M.A

 

1887

·      Rainton to Seaham railway opened

1902

·      Infants department opened Herrington school and then renamed the New Herrington Board School

 

 

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