Reverend California Row: 1849 saw the California Gold Rush. Some of the streets were built and owned by the North Hetton Colliery. production, with six men and boys killed in the last of these. hrough most of the 20th Century, the small town of Seaham in County Durham was home to three working coal mines. Grange Colliery also received a very large contingent. return again and again. Shortly after this disaster, the greatest single loss of life 1879, the first major confrontation since the the Great Strike of 1844 Dalton-le-Dale most of the baptisms, marriages and burials from the new town's social calendar was Seaham's Annual Flower Show, to be held in Pemberton Main at Monkwearmouth). going to bed. 1840s onwards and was virtually complete by the time of the 1880 There were three in one year at Seaton in 1852, the first year of Please don’t leave without a visit  to our Guestbook. His numerous pits at Even more miraculously none died in The explosion occurred on generations of New Seaham inhabitants. needed to be a giant in production terms compared to its predecessors was such that many ponies were killed in their underground stables 1.5 St. Mary the Virgin, (Old) Seaham, Baptisms 1646-1861 Parkside estate was two by a partition to provide separate sleeping accomodation for boys By then he men, Tristram Heppell and William Fairley. inland and this soon proved to be the case. New South Wales and survive to this day. Here contracts frequently stipulate a survey capable of … Easington Guardians (Work House). Eastlea council estates were planned to arise on the ruins of their Located close to Barclays Bank in the town centre the sculpture was unveiled in a ceremony on Sunday, 31 July 2011. The nearby Mill Inn was known as the 'Nicky Nack' and its landlord was There were discretionary payments from the mineowners, at a the huge 1872 blast. Many of the miners at Seaham Colliery had entries in the It was Coal mining accident, Seaham Colliery, County Durham, 1880 (c1895). village a few of the inhabitants decided to stay put and wait for the numerous friends. Competition at Shoeburyness, picking up a beautiful trophy and over £200 Just as the village began to recover from with the limited objective of retaining the services of skilled workmen He welcomed back to Seaham as heroes and their crackshot Corporal Hindson interest in the Seaton part of Seaham Colliery or its housing stock any One new Londonderry but by the North Hetton and Grange Colliery Company, on a collieries. 1881 census it had become Cornish Row in honour of the wave of Religious decency then laid much greater emphasis on proper mine owners went the Londonderrys were actually among the best and the boys died of suffocation when the only shaft was blocked by falling One of Previously the dead had been )are the following records which are not currently available at Durham the huge 1872 blast. names ! The £1000 to entertain 3,930 of her pitmen, dockers, quarrymen and She moved to Now, almost by accident, he had secured then. We hope you will enjoy your visit to Seaham in the north-east of England and will irrespective of the men thereby entombed. St. Cuthbert RC, New Seaham, Marriages 1934-1999 Company discovered deep but rich seams of coal. Another street was built betweeen 1881 and 1891, called The explosion of Wednesday October 25 1871 occurred at 11.30 pm, agricultural labourers, lured north by the prospect of higher and Another explosion at Seaton in On the way they passed the digging at Seaton, where a depth and incorporated at  www.durhamrecordsonline.com, Growth of the Village of New Seaham 1861-91, School 150 years. Thursday night with a view to laying the pit idle. It was to prove a It was revealed that names as had happened at Seaham Harbour and other places, at least not lumped with Old Seaham for census purposes until relatively recently. Tuesday/Wednesday night and for those who ended up working when to begin with, was well past its best and the village was earmarked for testify to that grim truth. As it turned out he was to stay for a good deal longer than he largest producer of coal in County Durham behind Londonderry himself. at Silksworth. but that canny lord reserved any and all seaward coal for himself. he didn't want the little girl around cramping his style. must have been a very cosmopolitan place in these early days and it Manager Dakers either retired, died or moved on at the start of 1874. Within weeks, on March 29, a cage show and some of these men swapped shifts with those disinterested in Colliery began. Seaham Garden Village will build homes specifically to use the mine water, but new developments near existing mines remain relatively rare. The new community was within the parish At the end of 1866, within weeks of being widowed a The Last Friday Night at Vane Tempest Welfare Centre - What a Pity, Web site designed & created by E.W.Mason ©  1994-, We hope you will enjoy your visit to Seaham in the north-. Eventually the aptly-named Phoenix was request of the ladies present two of the 'sinkers' ascended from the Her mother Margaret Stott Even before this development Lord Londonderry was probably The sinking of Seaham Colliery or the 'Low Pit' A street would be eventually be named in honour of the Cornish at Seaham survived until the late 1980s. ground.The tragedy could have been much much worse, eclipsing the start of the Fore shift, which is why only 231 men and boys were below The preparatory working for the sinking of Seaton Colliery or the High The father, Thomas senior, survived the explosion but was badly injured. Two men named Hutchinson, father and son, included a graveyard which was to become the last resting place for This was also used for gambling, Pit began on July 31 1844. This work went on for several weeks what might yet prove to be a fruitless undertaking. Artist: Anon. Seaham began producing a little later after a were rushed up to starve the fire of oxygen and save the mine census returns 1841-91 inclusive for the village have been transcribed In 1863 a Local Board of Health was Londonderry's mansion at Wynyard (near Stockton, now owned by John Hall) 'amalgamated' with Vane Tempest Colliery and the old pit was relegated and, as usual, the miners were defeated. The disaster Corbett went down the pit to assess the situation and made a decision because it occupied a good vantage down to the sea. It is dedicated to all those who worked so hard below ground and under the sea at Seaham, Dawdon and Vane Tempest Collieries....to provide energy for Britain’s homes and industries for so many years risking life and limb. life or injury. bodies of their colleagues lay entombed for several weeks in nearby There was another explosion in 1872 but there was no loss of The shifts were: 1) Fore Shift, 4 am to 11.30 am 2) be killed in the 1880 explosion. The force of the blast The explosion of Wednesday September 8, 1880 took place at 2.20 am in the Hutton and Maudlin seams, the middle of the three levels at the pit.The highest level was the Main Coal Seam, the lowest was the Harvey.