MineArchive
Menu

Simon Henry Fraser

A mining engineer of Southwick who took a lease of the Duke of Portland’s coal east of Pegswood and opened the new Pegswood Colliery on 13 May 1868, sharing with the Duke the cost of the miners’ houses and the village school.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Pegswood Colliery Northumberland 1868–1900

Record created: 8 September 2026 · Last researched: 8 September 2026

Accessibility options

Saved in this browser and applied on every page. Colour is never the only cue on MineArchive; if links are hard to pick out, underline them or raise the contrast. For larger text, use your browser's zoom.

Contrast
Link visibility
Motion
Reading width