A colliery viewer or coal viewer was the manager of a coal mine or colliery. The term was mostly used in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries....

Look up viewer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Viewer may refer to: Colliery viewer, an engineer or expert who supervised or advised a coal mine File...

colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near...

innovations in early railway development. While working as a 'viewer' or manager at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam...

coal traffic. As Sir George Elliot (a colliery labourer who went on to become a coal magnate, and was once coal viewer to Lord Londonderry) told Parliament...

population. West Kyo was the birthplace of John Buddle (1773), the famous colliery viewer and mining engineer, who later went on to work with Charles Vane, 3rd...

railway to use steam locomotives successfully. John Blenkinsop, the colliery's viewer, or manager, had decided that an engine light enough not to break...

under-viewer from Mount Osborne Colliery (and previous under-viewer at the Oaks), and other engineers and deputies from surrounding collieries, along...

father, and in 1801 he was appointed viewer of Benwell Colliery, soon buying a thirteenth share in the colliery worth £2,700, beginning his role as a...

grandfather William Brunton (16 July 1706 – 22 March 1787), who was a colliery viewer in the neighborhood. (His grandfather's death certificate states that...

was a viewer at Lumley colliery near Chester-le-Street. In 1804, Matthias Dunn was apprenticed to Thomas Smith, colliery viewer of Lambton Colliery, Durham...

The Hartley Colliery disaster (also known as the Hartley Pit disaster or Hester Pit disaster) was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, that...

position of colliery viewer His father died in 1820, and Dennis and his brother Thomas were brought up by an uncle, George Hill, also a colliery viewer, of Kenton...

colliery. Nicholas Junior attended the village school at Crawcrook and started work in 1811 at Killingworth Colliery as an apprentice colliery viewer...

The Felling Colliery (also known as Brandling Main) in Britain suffered four disasters in the 19th century, in 1812, 1813, 1821 and 1847. By far the worst...

the College for Civil Engineers, he was articled to George Hunter, a colliery viewer and engineer from Durham. He made rapid progress in his profession...

pits including the world-famous Killingworth Colliery owned by Lord Ravensworth. Ralph Dodds as Chief Viewer managed or trained several people of note during...

consider the prevention of accidents in coal mines. At a meeting of “colliery owners, viewers, and others interested in the Coal Trade” on 3 July 1852, it was...

geologist. Hutton was born 26 July 1797 in Sunderland, the son of a colliery viewer, but was settled in Newcastle-on-Tyne by 1827. He was an agent of the...

Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer. From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds...

atmospheric air after an explosion. Agent The agent was the senior colliery manager: the term "viewer", "captain" or "steward" also appeared in older regional terminology...

The Prince of Wales Colliery was a coal mine that operated for over 130 years in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was permanently closed in 2002...

work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826. George Stephenson was appointed as engine-wright at Killingworth Colliery in 1812 and immediately...

Williams worked at Upton Colliery during the Second World War, a reserved occupation. He played football for the colliery team, before turning professional...

was an English coal viewer and inventor. He was born in Nottinghamshire, but moved to Warwickshire in the 1760s to manage collieries in the Nuneaton area...

mining engineer with the Nostell Colliery Ltd in Wakefield. He became a mining manager for the Oughterside Colliery, south of Carlisle. His parents were...

diptychs. Framework Houses, 1959–1973 Water Towers, 1963–1993 Fforchaman Colliery, Rhondda Valley, South Wales, United Kingdom, 1966 Winding Towers, 1966–1997...

Velu's father Singamuthu had gone to Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh to work at a colliery and he never returned to Chennai, prompting Velu and his family to think...

waggonways. From around 1750 Brown worked as a viewer – the man with the technical expertise to develop a colliery and then to deal with the geological and...

benefactors in the colliery owners and many took on the names of specific collieries. A memorable image of the connection between the collieries and brass bands...