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Company/Proprieter

Durham County Coal Co. in 1839

• M. Ross, essay in T.H. Hair, "A Series of Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham", London,1844 (Tyne & Wear Archives Service Library)
• W. Whellan, "Directory of the County of Durham", London,1856 (Durham County Record Office Library)
• W. Fordyce, "A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields..." London, 1860 (main text of book) (Durham County Record Office Library)

Bowater, H. in 1851

• W. Fordyce, "A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields..." London, 1860 (main text of book) (Durham County Record Office Library)

from 1851 Johnson & Co.

• W. Fordyce, "A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields..." London, 1860 (main text of book) (Durham County Record Office Library)
• "Reports of the Inspector of Mines for the Year 1873", London, 1874 (Durham County Record Office, ref. D/DMA 255)
• "Mines and Minerals and Mineral Statistics 1883", H.M. Inspector of Mines, London, 1884 (Mining Institute, Newcastle)

Reay, Thomas M.

• F. Whellan, "History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham", London,1894 (Durham County Record Office Library)

Owners of Whitworth Colliery

• Home Office, "List of Mines 1900", H.M. Inspector of Mines, London, 1901 (Mining Institute, Newcastle)

Whitworth Park Coal Co.

• "Reid's Handy Colliery Guide and Directory for the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, & Yorkshire", Newcastle,1936 (Newcastle City Library)

Other Notes

called Whitworth Colliery in 1857. Original colliery unproductive & closed 1842, later re-let

• W. Whellan, "Directory of the County of Durham", London,1856 (Durham County Record Office Library)

Whellan in 1894 states the old Whitworth Park Colliery was opened in 1841 and exhausted in 1882.

• F. Whellan, "History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham", London,1894 (Durham County Record Office Library)

colliery was standing in 1883

• "Mines and Minerals and Mineral Statistics 1883", H.M. Inspector of Mines, London, 1884 (Mining Institute, Newcastle)

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