Fatfield Colliery Explosion – Fatfield – 1763

FATFIELD. Chester-le-Street, Durham. 1763.

There was an explosion of gas which took the lives of seventeen people. Steel mills had been brought from Whitehaven and were used for the first time. The connection between the explosion and the steel mill were not seen at the time.

REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway vol.1, p.272.
Dunns Coal Trade, p.23.
A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain. Galloway, p.106.

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.