In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Philip Clifford <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hello list.
>
>I have recently updated my web page with the details of some of the
>disasters attended by the North Staffordshire Colliery Owners Association's
>Mines Rescue Teams, between 1911 and 1918.
>
>I am curious that at two of the collieries, Jamage and Podmore Hall, the
>name BULLHURST was used for the coal seam.
>
>Can anyone advise me if this was pure coincidence or does BULLHURST have a
>meaning that I am not aware of.
>
>From "The Coalfields of Great Britain" by Sir Arthur Trueman. - 1954
"The Bullhurst Coal is usually a good industrial coal, but it is
sometimes rather sulphurous. It is known by this name throughout the
coalfield, except at Norton Colliery, where it has been called the Two
Yard. This is a measure of its normal thickness, though in the Longton
area it is frequently thinner. In the Bignall Hill area the Bullhurst
Coal is reported to have shown a thickness of over 100 feet and to have
been worked by a system of stoping. This anomalous thickness appears to
be due to repetition by thrusting. The roof of this coal is frequently a
sandstone, and this often fills the extensive wash-outs. In the area to
the north-west of Longton, the Bullhurst is completely washed out over a
large area."
As far as I know the seam extends over much of the northern part of the
Potteries Coalfield and into the Cheadle coalfield where it is anomalous
(I like this word) to the Alex or Stinking coal. As far as I can tell
from the index of the Stoke Geological Memoir there is nowhere called
Bullhurst, so I have no clue as to why it should be so named. I have
seen the Bullhurst underground in a pit near Mow Cop, and a pretty good
seam it is, although dipping at about 50-60 degrees there.
At Bradley Green Colliery it was at 955 feet depth
At Tower Hill Colliery 948 feet depth
At Diglake Shafts, Audley Colliery 748 feet depth
At Talk o'th-Hill Colliery c1000 feet depth
Lawton and Harecastle Colliery 757 feet depth
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