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by Gareth Turley

1860		Owned by T.Sowerby and I Phillips & Co (also owners of Byron Colliery and Waldridge Colliery)
1869		Colliery school opened – erected by colliery owners and room for 200 pupils
1871		Primitive Methodist chapel opened. It cost �475 and had a capacity of 230
1880’s		Thiedemann & Wallis
1882		W. Gillies - manager
1887		Chester South Moor Fan Pit sunk from the surface to the Busty seam
1888		W. Morris - manager
1889		Sinking from the Hutton to the Busty
1890’s		Priestman Collieries Ltd (owners) – also owned mines in Swalwell, Blaydon, Rowlands Gill & Waldridge
1893		Wesleyan Chapel built at a cost of �750 and a capacity of 250
1896		302 employed
1902		285 employed
1903		Boiler explosion- subject to an investigation by H. Smith (Commissioner) and G.C.Vaux. Blame was placed on the enginewright who it was claimed had not sufficiently examined the boiler – no injuries
1914		531 employed
1921		397 employed
1930		483 employed – W.H.Humble manager
1940		714 employed – C.Coulson manager
1945		695 employed – H.L.Wilson manager
1947		620 employed – owner National Coal Board Chester South Moor Colliery nationalised as part of the Labour government’s nationalisation programme after the election of 1945
1950		751 employed
1955		783 employed Opening of the Chester Moor pithead baths
1967		Chester South Moor Colliery closed

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