Interesting isn't it. It looks like Newburgh was the most dispensable of the pits in the Broomhill group and as they say, they hadn't been paying a dividend to directors.
From what I've been looking at in relation to Newburgh, it seems it was a difficult pit.....they had a lot of fatalities in a relatively short lifespan, mostly roof falls, and they were probably a bit lax on compliance with the latest Regulations.
Given the Government had slapped on this prohibition on exports it didn't look good. I don't know what proportion of the sort of coal Newburgh produced would have been what Scandinavia was looking for. I did come across another newspaper report that suggested quite a few men had headed to Elswick for work!
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