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1952 - 1998
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Date Name Age Colliery How Caused
03- Jan -1952 William Herbert Haslam 50 Mapperley Crushed by the cage 02- Jan -1952
21- Feb -1952 John Harrison 62 Shipley Fall of roof 1916
11- May -1952 John Bostock 69 Shipley Run over by tubs
21- Jul -1952 William Stocks 35 Ripley Fall of roof  1940
02- Sep -1952 Edward Kinsey   Ireland Fall of roof
00- Oct -1952 Frederick Herbert Myring   Ireland Overcome by blackdamp
04- Nov -1952 Frank Coupe 22 Markham Crushed by a Crane on surface
05- Nov -1952 John Hedley Parkin 41 Denby Hall Fall of roof
30- Dec -1952 Roy Fowkes 18 Ormonde Fall of roof
01- Jan -1953 William Marc Owen 38 Pleasley Fall of roof
07- Jan -1953 Cyril Litchfield 45 Brookhill ?
01- May -1953 Eric Thompson Passey 20 Markham Fall of roof
14- May -1953 Desmond Stephens 29 Bolsover Fall of roof
27- May -1953 Albert Edward Fletcher 65 Coppice Crushed by tubs on surface
26- Jun -1953 Alfred Allsopp 36 Ripley Fall of roof
19- Aug -1953 Kenneth C Warwick 27 Cotes Park Fall of roof
04- Sep -1953 Harold Tideswell 28 Arkwright Fall of roof
22- Sep -1953 John Leslie Bailey 16 Markham Manriding  accident
16- Dec -1953 Arthur Williamson 51 Woodside {pumping} Caught in machinery
06- Feb -1954 Arthur Charles Wilson 62 Morton Crushed by tubs
15- Feb -1954 Milton Hallett 31 Glapwell Caught in a cutter
22- Feb -1954 Noel Birks 36 Ripley Fall of roof
05- Mar -1954 Samuel Butler 60 Ripley Fall of roof
10- Apr -1954 Leslie Alfred Brentnall   Woodside Fall of roof
29- Apr -1954 Colin Moore 29 Ormonde Fall of roof
30- May -1954 Robert Revill 62 Glapwell Fall of roof 1944
05- Jun -1954 Albert Dudley 63 Shirebrook Fell over 03- Apr -1954
08- Jun -1954 Edward Keightley 28 Woodside Shotfiring  accident
22- Jun -1954 Barry Crate 20 Woodside Shotfiring  accident 21- Jun -1954
02- Jul -1954 Cyril Joseph Stevens 40 Morton Fall of roof
10- Jul -1954 John Rason 46 Markham Fall of roof 09- Jun -1954
03- Oct -1954 George Herbert Stone 44 Doe Lea Fall of roof 05- Jun -1945
06- Dec -1954 Wassel Jasnirkowski 25 Ormonde Fall of roof
13- Mar -1955 Charles Stevens 52 Williamthorpe Fall of roof
22- Mar -1955 Patrick Powell Apletree 69 Markham Head injury 21- Mar -1955
24- May -1955 Ernest Vickers 24 Markham Fall of roof
27- Aug -1955 James Reginald White 31 Creswell Fall of roof
05- Nov -1955 Cyril Sutton 44 Denby Hall Fall of roof
07- Feb -1956 Raymond Maddon 21 Ormonde Fell from a height on surface
11- Feb -1956 George Thomas Price 51 Holmewood Fall of roof 1942
03- Mar -1956 Joseph Henry Arnott 59 Swanwick Caught in a conveyor
24- Jul -1956 James Robert White 52 Ormonde Overcome by blackdamp
08- Aug -1956 Harold Kimes 29 Pilsley Fall of roof
10- Sep -1956 Joseph Wharton May 67 Langwith Crushed by tubs
02- Nov -1956 John William Smith 53 Denby Drury Lowe Fall of roof
11- Dec -1956 William Winfield 43 Woodside Manrider accident 28- Nov -1956
22- Feb -1957 Jack Hampshire Parkin   Mapperley Fall of roof
26- Feb -1957 Edwin Herbert Thorpe 58 Denby Drury Lowe Run over by a loco on surface
10- Mar -1957 Arthur Yeardley 47 Markham Injured leg 26- Feb -1957
11- Mar -1957 Ralph Pendriesh 36 Glapwell Fall of roof
17- Mar -1957 Reginald Birchall 31 Markham Fall of roof
03- Apr -1957 Reginald A Bostock 27 Ormonde Fall of roof
18- Apr -1957 Clive Roy Spencer 20 Coppice Fall of roof
30- Apr -1957 Wilfred Holmes 59 Cotes Park Caught in machinery on surface
00- May -1957 Clive Roy Spencer 20 Woodside Hit by a girder
14- Jun -1957 James Edmund Glover 45 Markham Fall of coal
09- Jul -1957 Alan Raynes 22 Glapwell Fall of roof
17- Jul -1957 Sylvester Rhodes 46 Holmewood Caught in machinery on surface
07- Aug -1957 Fred Whileman 28 Park House Fall of roof
09- Sep -1957 Albert Ernest Huddles 33 Ramcroft Overcome by blackdamp
06- Oct -1957 Stanley Vere Martin 45 Coppice Fall of roof 01- Oct -1957
09- Oct -1957 Thomas George Davies 52 Markham
Fall of roof
28- Oct -1957 Kenneth McKenzie 42 Holmewood Fall of roof
09- Nov -1957 Leslie Hearn 43 Holmewood Fall of roof 01- Nov -1957
00- Nov -1957 Arthur Chadbourne 55 South Normanton Unknown
21- Dec -1957 Stanley Comins 37 Glapwell Crushed by tubs
07- Feb -1958 Dennis Jeffery ? Woodside Fall of roof
00- Feb -1958 Walter Hedley Parker 61 Swanwick Crushed by a pony 27- Jan -1958
27- Mar -1958 James Barnsdale Birch 60 Coppice Fall of roof
30- Mar -1958 Charles Henry Fanshaw 57 Shirebrook Fall of roof 1948
30- Apr -1958 Melville Vernon Harston 30 Glapwell Fall of roof
11- May -1958 Burton Cupitt 53 Ireland Run over by tubs 04- Dec -1919
11- Jun -1958 Raymond Mee 35 Coppice Fall of roof
03- Sep -1958 Albert Hickman 63 Markham Fell from a gantry on surface
08- Dec -1958 Jesse Walters 40 Williamthorpe Run over by wagons on surface
09- Dec -1958 Branislaw Marcinkoski 45 Arkwright Manriding accident 26- Jan -1958
00-00-1959 Joseph Thomas Redfern 45 Ormonde Fall of roof
11- Feb -1959 Clarence Wingfield 54 Stanley Fall of coal 05- Feb -1959
31- May -1959 Joseph Wilfred Malley   Unknown Hit by timber 00- Mar -1956
22- Apr -1959 George Alfred Wood 16 Bolsover Crushed by tubs
00- Aug -1959 John Rogers 22 Swanwick Fell down the shaft
06- Oct -1959 Bernard Hector Eyre 55 Grassmoor Hit by a girder
19- Feb -1960 Alfred Frederick White 35 Glapwell Fall of roof
14- Mar -1960 Robert Yeomans 43 Whitwell Fell from baths roof 10- Mar -1960
04- May -1960 Keith George Ryde 23 Denby Drury Lowe Shotfiring  accident
20- May -1960 Harold Daffin 56 Markham Fall of roof
30- Jul -1960 Henry Pollard 39 Swanwick Crushed by a tractor on surface
05- Sep -1960 Lewis Leyton 63 Ormonde Fall of coal
14- Sep -1960 Charles Wilfred Bourne 41 Williamthorpe Crushed by tubs on surface
Jan-1961 Richard Edwin Roebuck
Info. from his nephew
Malcolm Roebuck		 49 Pleasley Colliery Working in the pit bottom, white-washing using an electrically driven pump which was unguarded, he leant over the pump to switch it off, his scarf became entangled in the drive shaft and he was instantly killed
09- Mar -1961 Albert Harold Snape 62 Mapperley Crushed by tubs 27- Feb -1961
15- Mar -1961 Louis F Hursthouse 58 Glapwell
Run over by a crane on surface
28- Mar -1961 Graham Marsden 24 Bramley Vale Fall of roof
23- May -1961 John Davies 49 Glapwell Fall of roof 00- Jul -1954
08- Jun -1961 Ernest Beresford Rogers 49 Markham Fell down the shaft
05- Jul -1961 Geoffrey Roberts   Glapwell Hit by roof support
08- Aug -1961 Eric George Frost 23 Morton Caught in machinery on surface
20- Aug -1961 Michael Caton 61 Brookhill Caught in machinery
03- Sep -1961 William Glendon 57 Langwith Fell from a building on surface
28- Nov -1961 Ronald Knowles 24 Langwith Caught is a coal cutter


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Date Name Age Colliery How Caused
10- Feb -1962 Charles Robert Cresswell 55 Denby Hall Dumper rolled into a slurry pond
12- Feb -1962 Harry Foster 60 Williamthorpe Strained lifting heavy objects
14- Jun -1962 Ernest Harry Rawlins 57 Brookhill Fall of roof
00- Jun -1962 Reginald Rogers 63 Markham Crushed by tubs 00- May -1962
19- Jun -1962 Ernest Hooley 60 Markham Foot injury 16- Feb -1962
30- Jun -1962 Alexander Turner 45 Holmewood Fall of roof?
05- Nov -1962 George Allcock 47 Arkwright Fall of roof
11- Feb -1963 Geoffrey Hawkins 45 Arkwright Fall of roof
30- Feb -1963 Stanley Warne 37 Swanwick Fall of roof
06- Apr -1963 Gary Robinson 16 Ormonde Crushed by tubs 04- Jan -1963
18- Apr -1963 Raymond Brown 53 Markham Caught in machinery
24- Apr -1963 Peter Stokoe 23 Blackwell B Fall of roof
25- Apr -1963 Samuel Skelton 60 Westhorpe Fell down the shaft
14- Jun -1963 Derek Burton 26 Glapwell Fall of roof
20- Jun -1963 George Hurt 53 Bramley Vale Caught in a cutter
21- Jun -1963 Isaac Stone 40 Ireland Caught in face conveyor
22- Jun -1963 Maurice Taylor 48 Brookhill Crushed by the cage
26- Jun -1963 Arthur Lyndon Goodwin 74 Markham Crushed by tubs 1947
01- Aug -1963 Thomas Flint 53 Coppice Crushed by tubs
22- Aug -1963 Alec George Fletcher 46 Creswell Crushed by tubs
25- Oct -1963 Paul Finney 19 Williamthorpe Overcome by blackdamp
10- Dec -1963 Joseph E Linthwaite 63 Denby Drury Lowe Injured 02- Jul -1951
14- Jan -1964 George Brooks 45 Bramley Vale Caught in a cutter
25- Mar -1964 Kenneth Thompson 23 Swanwick Crushed by bulldozer on surface
08- Jul -1964 Harry Gordon Milward 60 Bolsover Fall of roof
29- Aug -1964 Dennis Wood 29 Markham Caught in a cutter
17- Nov -1964 George Riley 41 Blackwell A Fall of roof
10- Dec -1964 George Stubbings 49 Whitwell Fell over in baths on surface
15- Dec -1964 Neville Naylor 25 Blackwell A Caught in a cutter
03- May -1965 Brian Plumb 21 Ormonde Electrocuted on surface
19- May -1965 Frank Smith 33 Ireland Fall of roof
20- Jul -1965 David Dixon 29 Renishaw Park Caught in a cutter
31- Dec -1965 Peter John Glossop   Creswell Fall of roof 01- Oct -1965
09- Feb -1966 Albert Rich 60 Glapwell Run over by wagons on surface
10- Feb -1966 Alec Moore 16 Westhorpe Caught in machinery
24- Mar -1966 Harry Elliot 34 Pleasley Crushed by roof support
12- Apr -1966 Harold Greaves 56 Alfreton Crushed by conveyor
07- May -1966 Robert Saxton 50 Grassmoor Fall of roof  00- May -1944
05- Jul -1966 Douglas Lucas 59 Swanwick Fall of roof
22- Sep -1966 Thomas Madden 73 Markham Fall of roof 1941
02- Nov -1966 Harry Fockinther 53 Oxcroft Fall of roof
00- Dec -1966 George Clarke 38 Blackwell A Back injury 1949
08- Dec -1966 Barrie Nightingale 31 Arkwright
Pulley rope came loose from a coal tub and caught his legs. Died 28-Dec-1966
17- Apr -1967 Graham Fred Buckley 35 Wheeldon Mill Fall of roof
21- Apr -1967 Charles Wawell 57 Denby Hall Fall of roof
03- May -1967 Peter Edward Meakin 30 Ormonde Fall of roof
30- May -1967 Peter Evans 57 Pleasley Crushed by roof support
14- Sep -1967 Robert Gough 59 Shirebrook Caught in machinery on surface
05- Feb -1967 Harold Walter Nichols 20 Holmewood Crushed by girders
27- Sep -1968 Terence S Sparham 23 Ormonde Crushed by machinery
16- May -1968 Ronald Locke 30 Renishaw Park Fall of roof
24- Sep -1968 Charles Smales 38 Williamthorpe Shotfiring  accident
10- May -1969 Stephan Bates 22 Markham Electrocuted on surface
31- May -1969 Dennis Hind 27 Langwith Unknown
13- Aug -1970 Walter Lavin 48 Doe Lea Overcome by blackdamp
13- Aug -1970 Raymond Thompson 56 Doe Lea Overcome by blackdamp
01- Dec -1970 Jeffrey Thomas 37 Arkwright Caught in a cutter
22- Jan -1971 John Ernest Hall 51 Oxcroft Fall of roof
04- Apr -1971 William Henry Neep 57 Markham Caught in machinery on surface
09- Mar -1972 James Edward Gibson 43 Glapwell Fall of roof
30- Dec -1972 John Hill 73 Westhorpe Fall of roof 31- Aug -1953
00- Jun -1973 Arthur Neale 64 Markham Spinal injury 1947
26- Jun -1973 Peter Whiteman 26 Creswell Hit by falling rails on surface
03- Jul -1973 Jan Madzia 40 Arkwright Injured on a conveyor belt


Markham Colliery 30 July, 1973
Shaft accident, overwind, caused by failure of mechanical break of winding engine.

Date Name Age Colliery How Caused
30- Jul -1973 Joseph Birkin 60 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 George Richard Cooper 30 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 George Eyre 60 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Frederick Reddish 52 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Alfred White 57 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Joseph W Brocklehurst 58 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Wilfred Rodgers 59 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Lucjam Plewinski 59 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Jan Kiminski 58 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Michael Kilroy 53 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Clifford Brooks 58 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Charles Richard Turner 60 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Henry Chapman 48 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Charles Leonard Sissons 43 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Frank Stone 53 Markham Cage overwind
30- Jul -1973 Clarence Briggs 52 Markham Cage overwind
03- Aug -1973 Albert Tyler 62 Markham Cage overwind 30- Jul -1937
15- Aug -1973 William Yates 62 Markham Cage overwind 30- Jul -1937
29- Nov -1973 George William Chapple 55 Creswell Head injury  26- Nov -1973
08- Feb -1974 Charles Hubert Palmer 41 Markham Fall of roof
23- May -1976 James Reeve 58 Bolsover Caught in haulage rope
04- Jun -1998 Alan Hill 51 Eckington Heading collapse
04- Jun -1998 David Martin 48 Eckington Heading collapse


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