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Well done Alan! I'll certainly be getting a copy... though I was a bit disheartened when I saw that the first entry I checked in it, for Bowburn, was incorrect. (It mixed up information about what is best called Bowburn Old Pit, which was a one-shaft colliery sunk in 1840 - probably by William Hedley - and I think probably closed in1858, and Bowburn Colliery. The latter was initially sunk by Bell Bros. in 1906 - first coals in 1908 - and grew to be one of the largest inland pits in the Durham coalfield, with c.3,000 employees around 1950. It closed in 1967. The two collieries were about one kilometre apart.) Mike Syer ---------- Alan Vickers wrote: > I have recently come across a book - Durham Collieries- A Listing, by Jennifer Gill, County Archivist, that was published in 2001 by Durham County Record Office, price £6.00 plus £1.50 postage. > > The ISBN is 0 9500492 5 5 > > The book is in A4 landscape format and has 113 pages. It contains basic information about collieries in County Durham from c1850 to c1990, using information obtained from a clearly-defined range of sources. > > The listing provides: > > - a list of colliery names, their location and ownership. > - alternative names that were used for particular collieries and > shafts. > - names of individuals and companies who owned the collieries > at different times. > - evidence of dates of operation. > - an index of owners, listing the collieries owned. > - an index of townships, showing the named collieries in each > township. > - a list of map sheet references, showing the named collieries > and the number of unnamed shafts within each map area. > > Alan Vickers.