Enjoy a glimpse of history about Shotton Colliery in County Durham, England, UK.
The Post Office Directory of Durham and Northumberland
by Kelly and Company
Published in 1879
SHOTTON with SHOTTON COLLIERY form a township, in Easington parish, 10 miles from Durham and 12 south from Sunderland and about 2 from Thornley railway station, in Easington union, Seaham Harbour, county court district, rural deanery of Easington, archdeaconry and diocese of Durham. Here is the church of St. Saviour, a handsome stone building, erected in 1852 and consecrated in 1854; it consists of chancel, nave and north aisle, porch and vestry, and will seat about 400 persons. The register dates from the year 1854. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £320, in the gift of the Bishop of the diocese, and held by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Hardwich, Medical Associate of King’s College, London. There is an extensive school, chiefly supported by the Colliery Company; also a small Endowed school at the agricultural village of Shotton, founded by Edward Walton, esq.; value of the endowment £20, with residence for the master. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have commodious chapels at Shotton Colliery. Shotton Colliery village, about 1 mile west from Old Shotton, is chiefly the abode of colliers. Shotton Colliery is very extensive, and is the chief support of the village. Here are also brick and tile works. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor. The chief landowners are John Burdon, esq. J.P. the Colliery Company and Anthony Wilkinson, esq. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, clay and gravelly. Crops, wheat, oats and potatoes. The acreage is 3,701; rateable value, £7,212; the population in 1871 was 3,300.
POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Shotton Colliery.—William Anderson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Castle Eden station at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.50 p.m
Colliery Schools, William MacIsaac, master; Mrs. Mary Martin, mistress
Endowed School, Henry Fenwick, master
Shotton Colliery Railway Station, Thomas Winter, station master
Dormand Thomas, Shotton colliery
Dunscombe George, Shotton colliery
Edgar Llewellyn
Hardwich Rev. Thos. Frederick [vicar], The Vicarage, Shotton colliery
Hudson Ralph Milbanke, J.P. Shotton hall
Scott Andrew, Shotton colliery
Scott Joseph, Shotton colliery
Atkinson Ralph, draper & boot & shoe warehouse, Shotton colliery
Atkinson Thomas William, draper & grocer, Shotton colliery
Alderson James, farmer, Low hills
Broderick Anthny. grocer, Shotton collry
Bullock Wm. generl. dlr. Shotton colliry
Burdiss John, Albert inn, Shotton colliery
Curry Hugh, boot ma. Shotton colliery
Curry James, farmer, Eden hall
Curry Wm. Colliery inn, Shotton colliery
Davey Hen. shopkeeper, Shotton colliery
Dormand Thos. viewer, Shotton colliery
Dunscombe Geo. surgn. Shotton colliery
English George, farmer, Howletch
Fenwick Thomas, farmer
Ferguson Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Gilmore John, butcher
Harrison Thos. greengro. Shotton colliery
Hepplewhite George, butcher, Shotton colliery
Hindmarsh Thos. boot ma. Shotton collry
Hornsby John Hutchinson, Black Horse, Shotton colliery
Hornsby Thomas, blacksmith
Hynd William, farmer, Cotsford grange
Jameson Anthony, wheelwright
Johnson John, miller
Joicey Thomas, furniture broker
Mawston George, grocer & draper, Shotton colliery
Miller John, beer retailr. Shotton colliery
Neason Johnson, tailor, Shotton colliery
Noble Joseph, grocer, Shotton colliery
Noble Lowes, grocer, Shotton colliery
Parker John, farmer
Parkin Thomas, Commercial inn, Shotton colliery
Proud John, Black Bull
Reed Robert, butcher, Shotton colliery
Scurr Robert, farmer, Acre Ridge
Selby Joseph, farmer, Edder Acres
Smith Francis, beer retlr. Shotton colliery
Stephenson Matthew, butcher, Shotton colliery
Storey Robert, farmer, Fleaming field, Shotton colliery
Sweeting George, farmer
Taylor Richard Preston, Beehive inn, Shotton colliery
Taylor George, farmer, Hall farm
Walker Teasdale, farmer, White house, Shotton colliery
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