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Dean and Chapter Colliery - Timeline

by Edna Boyton

1683
The Murders at the Mill

1869
Durham Miners Association formed

1902-
1904
Dean and Chapter Colliery opened. Owners Bolckow Vaughan & Co.

c.1933
Jacky’s Pit, Beamish

1934
Family move to Spennymoor then Ferryhill

1939
Start of World War 2

1941
My birth. War still raging, severe rationing of food and clothing

1945
War ends. 1947 National Coal Board took over Dean & Chapter

1949
Father to Convalescent Home, then dies in the autumn of the same year

1953
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 2nd

1966
Contraction and close of Dean & Chapter

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