For many years I have been told that my grandfather also Duncan McGregor had been killed in a mining accident. Just this week I have managed to get a copy of his death certificate and it states he died at 2.10 pm on the 25th March 1948 in Blackridge due to a fractured skull.

He was seen after death by a William Alexander? His daughter, my Aunt, tells me he was the only man to die that day. He was also involved in a disaster in Carnbro two years before. I would be so grateful if you could shed any light on this or put me in the direction of someone who can.

Yours D. McGregor

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I hope you or someone on your site can help? I’m researching family history and although I know my ancestor was a colliery agent’s manager I do not know which pit he worked at.

It would have to be one in Yorkshire although Hatfield and Thorne pits were not up and running at the time. Do you know of any search sites that would hold historical data of staff which I could look at? 

Regards
Lisa

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I am hoping you can point me in the right direction to find out about a mining fatality in one of the Kent minefields in 1947.

I have a Thomas William (or William Thomas ) BANKS born around 1913 Mine Deputy married to an Elsie.

That’s my sum knowledge.

Is there any site you can suggest where I may find some information.

Regards
Barr Lambe

Try Ian Winstanley's Site

Hello

I used to work at Sutton Manor Colliery in St. Helens. I started in 1975 and left just before closure in 1991.

The photograph was taken just after the miners strike, about 1987.
The three miners at the back are, from left to right,
Keith St. Pierre (Deputy), John Thacker (faceworker), Mo Perry (heading worker)

Front left, Stephen Richardson (Overman), Roy Pye (faceworker), Tommy Molyneux (heading worker) and I'm not 100% sure of the last person, I think his name was Joe Greenhaulgh but I do know he was a methane borer.

Sutton Manor was a very gassy mine and a sheet of brattice cloth can be seen to the rear left of the photo. This was erected to help ventilate and remove gas from the pack area.

Dear Fionn,

I am the son of a mine rescue team member, Peter Stewart Wilson, Bowburn, Durham. He died in 1966 aged 54.
Moved by the recent Chile events I am prompted to research my father’s work and family.
He ended up as a medical centre attendant at Tursdale, but I know that as a St. John’s Ambulance Brigade member he was active in Mines Rescue. He used to take me to rather gory “competitions” in Miners Welfare halls to see how the teams would tackle various disaster scenes.

Do you have any recommendations as to research resources – particularly on the internet?

Laurence S. Wilson

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