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A few snippets thar ref Shilbottle Colliery:



Jan 7th 1815: Four [miners] killed by Choak damp [sic] at Shilbottle Colliery (The Leeds Mercury Saturday, January 20, 1816 in a list of the previous year’s ‘remarkable events’)


The Lessees of Shilbottle Colliery have humanely distributed 26 loads of coal among the poor of that place. (The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, January 22, 1825)


The Lessees of Shilbottle Colliery, with their usual humane and benevolent feelings, have given each poor family of Shilbottle a load of coals. (The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, February 11, 1826)



To be sold by private contract, All that valuable Freehold Estate, situated at Shilbottle, in the county of Northumberland, containing 267 acres of arable and pasture land, be the same more or less; together with the seams of coal and limestone within and under the infield lands, part of the said premises, containing about 95 acres, in the Town of Shilbottle aforesaid, and other parts nearby adjoining thereto; a considerable portion of which Coal lies very near to the present workings of Shilbottle Colliery. Also the freehold corn tythes, arising and growing yearly out of lands in the said township, occupied by Messrs Tate, Marshall, Wright, Rochester, Taylor, and Jameson, containing in the Whole about 600 Acres.
The estates and tythes are in the Tenure of Messrs. Wrigglesworth, under and agreement for a lease of 12 years from the 12th day of May next, at the annual Rent of £215. It is well watered and fenced, with good Farm House and two Farm Offices thereon. The estate is about half a mile from the Great Post Road to London, three miles from the Market town of Alnwick, and about the same Distance from the Shipping port of Alemouth [Alnmouth] The Land-tax is redeemed, the Tenants pay all taxes chargeable thereon, over or above the said rent, except a Fee-farm rent of £1 1s 8d. payable annually to Francis Pym, Esq. by the landlord. On application the Tenants will shew the estate, and for further information apply to Mr Russell, of Alnwick. Shilbottle, 7th February, 1827. The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, February 10, 1827

(The Lessees of Shilbottle Colliery in 1829 are recorded as “Messrs Taylor” )



The Lessees of Shilbottle Colliery have generously given each poor family of Shilbottle a load of coals (The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, January 19, 1828)



The Owners of Shilbottle Colliery have generously given each poor family of Shilbottle and the neighbourhood a load of coals (The Newcastle Courant, Saturday, February 14, 1829)



COAL WORKMEN. A few steady Hewers and Putters, who can work a 30-inch seam, will meet with encouragement by applying at Shilbottle Colliery near Alnwick. July 24 1838. (The Newcastle Courant, Friday, July 27, 1838)



Justice Room, in Alnwick, 27th August – Luke Weatheritt and James Jeffery, two of the bound pitmen of Shilbottle Colliery, were convicted for absenting themselves from their service, and were sentenced to six weeks hard labour in the House of Correction at Morpeth. On the day they so absented themselves, the whole of the men of the colliery, by some combination, struck work, and laid off the pit. (The Northern Liberator, Saturday, August 31, 1839)


[Radcliffe tragedy below but an ex Shilbottle miner]

Coroners Inquests: On Saturday, the 12th inst., another inquest was held before the same coroner, at Radcliffe Terrace, near Warkworth, on the body of Henry Corbitt, pitman, aged 32, who was working in Radcliffe Colliery the day before, and a large stone falling from the roof of the pit hit the deceased on the back of the head, and killed him on the spot. He had been employed there about two years, and formerly worked at Shilbottle Colliery, near Alnwick. The deceased has left a widow and five children to mourn his loss. Verdict – “Accidental Death” (The Newcastle Courant, Friday, February 18, 1848)




DIED FROM EXPOSURE TO COLD.—On Monday, an inquest was held at the house of Mr Robert Brown, innkeeper, Shilbottle, near Alnwick, before Mr J. J. Hardy, coroner, on the body of Edward Bannester, 57 years of age, sawyer, belonging to Alnwick, who had been found lying dying that morning, in front of the engine-house fire at Shilbottle Colliery. On the day preceding deceased had been engaged by Mr George Trueman to bring a cow from a village, about nine miles to the north of Alnwick, to Shilbottle, which is about three miles to the south, and he would appear to have partaken rather freely of refreshment, as at seven o'clock in the evening, Mr Trueman found he had reached no further than Alnwick. At the above hour deceased left Alnwick again on his road to Shilbottle with the cow. About eleven o'clock the same evening, Mr Truman was driving home in a spring-cart, and overtook the cow on the road, but without the deceased. He took the cow to the Royal Oak Inn, and, in company with other two men, again proceeded on his journey. They had gong about two miles, when they discovered [the] deceased lying by the side of the road tipsy, and they took him into the cart, and drove to the colliery. Mr Trueman asked deceased to go to Shilbottle, and he would give him a bed, but deceased said he could stop at the colliery; and with the assistance of the two men got out of the cart, and went and lay down in front of the engine door, which is protected by an open archway. The parties then shook hands, and separated. Oswald Gibson, engineman, on his coining to his work next morning, found deceased lying "curled" up, as if from cold; he spoke to deceased, but received no reply, and lifted him up, but ho appeared to be unable to speak, and expired in a few minutes. Verdict—" Died from exposure to cold while under the influence of drink.' (The Newcastle Courant, Friday, March 31, 1865)





SHILBOTTLE COLLIERY…..MR. CHARLES BROUGH,….WILL SELL BY AUCTION,
At the Queen's Head Hotel, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Tuesday, 21st December, at two o'clock precisely,
ALL THAT VALUABLE AND CURRENT GOING, COLLIERY, called SHILBOTTLE COLLIERY, in the County of Northumberland, about Three Miles from Alnwick, comprising a considerable Area of the celebrated Shilbottle Seam of Coal, together with the Colliery Plant, Agents' and Workmen's Houses, and all other Erections and Buildings belonging thereto. The Colliery is within Three Miles of the North Eastern Railway. Further Particulars may be obtained at the Offices of the AUCTIONEER, Blackett Street ; of Messrs. T. E. FORSTER & CO., Mining Engineers ; and of Messrs. LAWS, GLYNN and MAYSON, Solicitors, 7, Collingwood Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Blackett Street, December 7th.
(The Newcastle Courant, Friday, December 17, 1869)




FALL IN THE PRICE OF COALS-The lessees of Shilbottle Colliery, on Monday reduced the price of theire coals 3s 4d per ton, which are now selling at 21s 8d. The coals at the new pit on Alnwick Moor were lately reduced, and are now selling at 16s 8d a ton, with a good steady demand. (The Newcastle Courant, Friday, August 29, 1873)
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