Old Durham Colliery in brief:

1848 First trial borehole sunk

1849 First coal production     

1876 Hutton seam abandoned

1883 Low Main seam abandoned 

Above: Map showing the position of Old Durham Colliery and the Old Durham Wagonway linking it to the North Eastern Railway (formerly the Durham & Sunderland Railway opened in 1839).

OS map 1861, surveyed 1857. Durham sheet XXVII. (original scale 6 inches to 1 mile). Reproduced with permission of the National Library of Scotland. CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial- ShareAlike  4.0 International) licence.

Old Durham Colliery Fatalities (Source: Durham Mining Museum)

The following 13 men were killed in mining accidents at Old Durham Colliery:

Index of Monumental Inscriptions at St Mary the Virgin, Shincliffe:

One burial listed in the Index to Monumental Inscriptions for St Mary's:

George COXON - Grave Site C18

Sacred to the memory of George COXON who died at Old Durham Colliery 1 September 1869 aged 64 years.

Also Ann, beloved wife of the above died 18th September 1872 aged 56 years.

Also George COXON, son of the above, died 1st April 1895 aged 44 years.

Durham Mining Museum - Old Durham Colliery page  (External site)