Mainsforth Colliery
Opened/Sunk: 1904-06, as referenced: Durham County Record Office, ref. NCB 24/117
Closed: 1968, as referenced: Durham County Record Office, ref. NCB 24/54
Location: 7 miles [11 km] SSE of Durham
Map Reference: 35SW
OS Edition: 1st: x, 2nd: 1898(d), 3rd: 1923, 4th: 1939
(d) Shown as old or disused on this edition
Details
Company/Proprieter
Mainsforth Coal Co.- "Reports of the Inspector of Mines for the Year 1873", London, 1874 (Durham County Record Office, ref. D/DMA 255)
- "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland & Durham", Newcastle,1906 (Newcastle City Library)
- "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, & Yorkshire", Newcastle,1911(Newcastle City Library)
- "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, & Yorkshire", Newcastle,1919 (Newcastle City Library)
- "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, & Yorkshire", Newcastle,1928 (Newcastle City Library)
- "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, & Yorkshire", Newcastle,1936 (Newcastle City Library)
- Ministry of Fuel & Power, "List of Mines in Great Britain & the Isle of Man, 1945", London, 1947 (Durham County Record Office Library)
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