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Alan Entombed


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Entombed


In Memory
In Memory
In Memory
In Memory

Known Victims Of Disasters Or Accidents
Whose Bodies Were Never Recovered
And Remain Entombed Forever

 

 


Audley Pit, Newcastle, Staffordshire
14th January, 1895

Inundation Of Water - 75 Unrecovered - 5 Recovered 1932-3

Name

Age

Aaron Johnson

21

Fred Taylor

38

Thomas Cartwright

39

Thomas Atkins

49

Samuel Cork

36

Enoch Sproston

32

James Mitchell

37

Fred Lowe

27

Henry Webb

28

Charles Vernon

28

Ralph Taylor

40

Henry Riley

20

Thomas Childers

27

John Taylor

40

Daniel Rowley

25

John Platt

20

William Sproston

43

Benjamin Knight

17

Abram Hopwood

15

Alfred Rhodes

17

Ernest Lightfoot

16

Richard William Johnson

20

David Spode

61

George Spode

26

Elijah Billington

57

George Wynne

30

John Guise

40

William Latham

18

George Beech

27

Samuel Mayer

16

Joseph Cooper

19

Henry Bailey

38

John Bailey

21

Thomas Bowers

28

Henry Maddock

48

William Hughes

32

William Roberts

30

John Brough

30

William Butler

30

B Mottram

30

Henry Leach

19

George Carter

40

Benjamin Mitchell

40

John Riley

49

George ?

24

Samuel Johnson

43

Henry Clough

19

Peter Taylor

37

John Betchett

24

John Frost

20

John Burton

16

George Henry Fox

14

F Thomas Sproston

14

George Mayer

17

James Pover

16

Richard Taylor

19

John Elsby

47

Thomas Sproston

45

Fred Johnson

35

Edward Higgins

43

Arthur Jackson

15

Ralph Mayer

15

James Henry Maddock

15

Henry Lee

14

Thomas Taylor

14

Thomas Tittle

15

William Pugh

14

George Murray

14

Joseph Johnson

13

George Pover

14

Alf Hopwood

18

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Cambrian Pit, Clydach Vale, Glamorgan
10th March, 1905

Ignition of Methane - 33 Killed - 2 Unrecovered

Name

Age

Evan Davies

42

David Morgan

35

 


Universal Pit, Glamorgan
14th October, 1913

Ignition of Methane and Coal Dust - 440 Killed - 11 Unrecovered


439 Miners And One Rescuer, William John, Died

List Of Those Who Died


Mapperley, Derbyshire
5th June, 1918

A Mining Mystery
Last Seen Underground 11am Never Left The Pit -
Accident or Murder?

Name

Age

Thomas Severn 43

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Stanrigg, Lanarkshire
9th July, 1918

Image From Scottish Mining Website

Inundation Of Moss - 19 Killed - 11 Unrecovered

Alexander Park

55

Robert Pollack

49

Robert Pollack

15

Alexander Gilchrist

30

William Gilchrist

32

Robert Campbell

30

William Douglas Williamson

27

William Brady

49

Thomas Brady

18

John Snedon

31

William Campbell

48

 


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