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Alan Nottinghamshire Coalfield



Bestwood Colliery
1871-1967

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Name/Address Age Date of Accident Inquest date/Place Detail

Samuel Clamp
30, Butt Street
Hucknall

36

10-12-1907

11-12-1907
Nottingham General Hospital

Fall of coal

George Leonard Poyser
26, Repton Road
Bulwell

16

21-12-1908

23-12-1908
Bestwood Miners Institute

Run over by tubs

Richard Butters
13, Gillhead Street
Bulwell

67

21-03-1910
Died 23-03-1910

26-03-1910
Primitive Methodist
Chapel Bulwell

Fell over on the surface, death from internal injuries

Robert Denison
Calverton Road
Arnold

56

03-06-1910

04-06-1910
Bestwood Miners Institute

Run over by wagons, on the surface

James Cyril Slater
66, Latham Street
Bulwell

18

09-10-1911
Died 03-11-1911

06-11-1911
Nottingham General Hospital

Run over by tubs

John Leatherland
20, Latham Street
Bulwell

56

12-09-1913

13-09-1913
Primitive Methodist
Chapel Bulwell

Fall of roof

William Brown
Brickyard, Butlers Hill
Hucknall

58

10-12-1913

27-10-1913
Hyson Green
Coroners Court

Fall of roof, forced a pick blade into his throat

Samuel Wheat
52, Corporation Avenue
Hucknall

56

31-03-1914

03-04-1914
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

Alfred Woodward
55, St Albans Road
Arnold

46

12-05-1915

15-05-1915
Nottingham General Hospital

Fall of coal

John Boyard
1,Woolaton Street
Hucknall

61

20-06-1915

22-06-1915
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

George Bailey
14, Ladycroft Avenue Hucknall

49

19-07-1916

21-07-1916
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

Ernest William Terry
108, Merchant Street
Bulwell

30

23-05-1917

05-06-1917
Nottingham General Hospital

Fall of roof, death from Pneumonia

Wilfred Wildgust
Redhill
Arnold

15

18-12-1917
Died 21-12-1917

24-12-1917
Nottingham General Hospital

Death from burns, after a fire in the lamproom

Arthur Moore
34, Annesley Road
Hucknall

25

12-01-1923

15-01-1923
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

George Henry Ball
Vine Street
Hucknall

45

08-05-1923

10-05-1923
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

Richard Pearson
Hart Street
Bulwell

18

02-05-1924

03-05-1924
Bestwood Miners Institute

Crushed by tubs

Robert Waddilowe
25, Jennison Street
Bulwell

23

14-09-1925

19-09-1925
City Asylum Mapperley

Kicked by a pony, death from head injuries

Clarence Norman Theaker13, Gillhead Street
Bulwell

23

14-04-1926

16-04-1926
Nottingham General Hospital

Fall of roof

Henry Croxhall
16, Trueman Street
Bulwell

28

27-11-1926
Died 09-12-1926

10-12-1926
Nottingham General Hospital

Injured elbow, death from Septicaemia

Edwin Thompson
63, Hazel Street
Bulwell

63

26-03-1927

29-03-1927
Nottingham General Hospital

Caught in machinery, on the surface

John William Harrison
144, High Street
Arnold

48

23-04-1928

25-04-1928
Nottingham General Hospital

Run over by tubs

Samuel Knighton
38, Bradley’s Cottages
Redhill

48

18-08-1928

19-08-1928
Bestwood Miners Institute

Crushed by wagons, on the surface

Alan Arthur Askey
59, Corporation Avenue
Hucknall

22

02-11-1928
Died 07-11-1928

13-11-1928
Nottingham General Hospital

Injured elbow, death from Toxaemia

Percy Loomb Davey
12, Lingford Street
Hucknall

42

19-02-1929

22-02-1929
Bestwood Miners Institute

Hit by bricks and ice, falling down the shaft

Wilfred Archer
157, Mansfield Road
Daybrook

30

19-02-1929

22-02-1929
Bestwood Miners Institute

Hit by bricks and ice, falling down the shaft

Alfred Archer
43, Central Avenue
Hucknall

30

12-12-1928
Died 17-04-1929

19-04-1929
Nottingham General Hospital

Injured head, in a conveyor

Arthur Samuel Clarke
51, Hankin Street
Bulwell

30

08-08-1929

10-08-1929
Bestwood Miners Institute

Fall of roof

John Knapp
Duke Street
Hucknall

37

00-00-1923
Died 29-09-1929

00-10-1929
No record found

Injured 1923, death from Toxaemia

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