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| | Durham Mining Museum - Boldon Colliery |
 | | Boldon Colliery is a large village, comprising over 500 miners' cottages, as well as several good shops, and there are chapels belonging to the Wesleyans, Primitives, Free Church and Lay Church, and the parish church being a little to the north west. |
 | | Andrews, Joshua, 17 Jul 1899, aged 30, Hewer, Deceased and his marrow were removing a small pillar of coal, and, while the former was in the act of setting a prop, a stone fell from between two slips. |
 | | Wilson, William Anderson, 23 May 1899, (accident: 16 May 1899), aged 14, Driver, When deceased was driving a pony attached to four full tubs, he improperly took the cotter out of the limbers while still sitting on them, and probably the jolting of the tubs detached the limbers, and he was run over. |
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