P2-1924 - Bob Bradley

Manpower Old Birchwood

1894: 137 Silkstone, 35 surface
1895: 113 S, 33 s/f
1896: 127 S, 34 s/f
1897: 109 S, 30 s/f
1898: 114 S, 34 s/f
1899: 126 S, 29 s/f
1900: 99 Silkstone and Tupton, 25 s/f
1901: 74 S and T, 42 s/f;
1902: 131 Silkstone abandoned
1902: Tupton, 26 s/f
1903: 150 Tupton, 37 s/f
1904: 153 T, 39 s/f
1905: 152 T, 34 s/f
1906: 149 T, 38 s/f
1907: 175 T, 50 s/f
1908: 191 T, 51 s/f
1909: 211 T, 53 s/f
1910: 230 app T, 65 s/f
1911: 259 T, 81 s/f
1912: 265 T, 84 s/f
1913: 314 T, 91 s/f
1914: 270 T, 92 s/f
1915: 217 T, 78 s/f
1916: 106 Tupton or Low Main fin and Yard, 44 s/f
1917: 141 Yard, 44 s/f
1918: 166 Y, 44 s/f
1919: 218 Y, 34 s/f
1920: 216 Y, 60 s/f
1921: Upper Birchwood: 212 Yard, 64 s/f
1922: 181 Y, 47 s/f
1923: 134 Yard, 37 s/f
1924: 58 Yard, 28 s/f, abandoned 30th August 1928.

Agents:

Will Crosley -1884
Frederick Channer Corfield pre 1884-1905
H Eustace Mitton Agent 1905-1921
Jack Bircumshaw (2144) Agent 1921-1924.

Managers at Old Birchwood, (name changed to Upper Birchwood in 1921)

William Crosley Manager pre 1883-1884
Henry Stevenson (1575) Manager 1884-1896
Ben McLaren (1789) Manager 1896-1902
CJ Turton (1759) Manager 1902-1904
HH Holmes (2293) 1904-1913
GH Holmes (3987) 1913-1924.

Undermanagers:

William Rowe (service cert 301-2nd) pre 1887-1896
A Wilbraham (289-2nd) 1896-1902; WW Jepson (984-2nd) 1902-1904
J Brown (2nd) 1904-1908
RG Richardson (2nd) 1908-1914
No Undermanager after this date. The colliery was abandoned on 30th August 1924 and there were 58 men underground and 28 on the surface.

Surveyors: John Holbrook – 1928.

Fatal Accidents

Jace Chater (..?) 13 Nov 1857
John Spencer (..?) fell down shaft 16 Oct 1862
Henry Dooley (..?) 20 Jul 1867
Henry Wild (..?) 24 Oct 1868
George Shipman (30) 5 Jan 1882
Ralph Darrington (..?) 4-6 Feb 1886
George Ward (..?) and William Bacon (..?) killed by roof fall 10 Feb 1886
Peter Hill (62) 23 Nov 1905
George William England (38) 6-9 Jul 1915.
** More than likely the (? ages) would be young boys.

Additions To Mine Plan

HA Abbott Surveyor to the Moira Colliery Co made additions and remarks on 26th May 1924, to the Coton Park / Church Gresley mine working plan re the abandoned workings in 1899. Obviously some workings had been missed off. This is possible at quite a few mines unfortunately, see remarks later.

Parliament

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.

President of Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister (Con), (was Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme) 24th Oct 1924-1929.

Fatal Accidents 1924 Included

Bolsover, John Amott (50) crushed by the cage 27 Jul 1924
Bolsover, James Draycott (68) crushed by tubs 24 Sep 1924
Bond’s Main, Walter Round (22) fall of roof 20 Aug 1924
Britain, Herbert Case (39) crushed by wagons on the surface 7 Apr 1924
Britain, Albert Haywood (64) crushed by tubs 27 Oct 1924
Brookhill, Albert Webb (14) caught in machinery 19 Feb 1924
Cadley Hill, Harry Wileman (14) run over by tubs 5 Dec 1924
Church Gresley, William B Woolett (31) fall of roof 16 Dec 1924
Clay Cross No2, Joseph Kirkman (36) fall in a roadway 26 Aug 1924
Coppice, William Riley (53) fall of roof 22 Feb 1924, died 29 May 1924
Cotes Park, William Vardy (53) fall of roof 24 Jul 1924
Creswell, Thomas Lomas (48) fall of roof 3 Mar 1924
Creswell, Mathew Buckley (52) shotfiring accident 14 Apr 1924
Creswell, William Kaye (44) fall of roof 16 Dec 1924, died 27 Dec 1924
Denby, Charles Thomas Booth (19) crushed by tubs 23 Apr 1924
Denby, John Whiteman (67) injured hand 29 Sep 1924, died of toxaemia 19 Oct 1924
Denby Hall, Ben North (37) fall of roof 17 Nov 1924
Digby, Fred Lebeter (42), explosion Aug 1924
Glapwell, James Kelly (27) fall of roof 19 Mar 1924
Glapwell, Anthony Dooker (55) fall of roof 10 May 1924
Glapwell, John T Thompson (48) fall of roof 3 Jun 1924
Glapwell, George Robinson (37) fall of roof 23 Oct 1924
Glapwell, Herbert S Wakelam (23) fall of roof 1 Dec 1924
Glapwell, John Breslin (33) fall of roof 11 Dec 1924
Grassmoor, Joseph Kitchener (44) crushed by tubs 2 Feb 1924
Grassmoor No4, Michael Burns (59) 23 Sep 1924
Hartington, Harold Swift (14) kicked by a pony 1 May 1924, died 2 May 1924
Hartington, Arthur Bingham (20) hit by haulage rope 16 Jul 1924
Hartington, John Fretwell (58) fall of roof 25 Aug 1924
Holmewood, Colin Warren (39) fall of roof 7 Apr 1924
Ireland, William Vickers (53) fall in a roadway 30 Nov 1924, died 12 Dec 1924
Manners, Henry Carrington (42) injured arm on 18 Dec 1924, died 27 Dec 1924
Markham No1, William Rounds (60) kicked by a pony 9 Mar 1924, died 19 Mar 1924
Markham No2, Harold Jeavons (22) run over by tubs
Morton, John William Ward (19) run over by tubs 2 Apr 1924
Ormonde, Arthur Lingard (62) fall of roof 20 Nov 1924
Pleasley, Alfred Boot (28) fall of roof 23 Jul 1924
Ramcroft, John Pearce (14) crushed by tubs 14 Jan 1924
Riddings, Percy Marriott (34) 1 May 1924
Shirland, Arthur Hill (29) fall of roof 13 Mar 1924
Somercotes, James William Moore (45) 24 Oct 1924
Southgate, Joseph Huson (17) crushed by tubs 24 Oct 1924
South Normanton, Leonard Kirk (27) fall of roof 4 Sep 1924
Stanley, Charles F Beardsley (14) run over by tubs 1 Feb 1924
Stanton, William Hollingsworth (24) crushed by tubs 16 Feb 1924, died 20 Feb 1924
Swadlincote, Joseph Cooper Platts (56) crushed by tubs 27 Apr 1924
Old Swanwick, Victor Comery (25) crushed by tubs 22 Jul 1924
New Swanwick, James Moore (44) run over by tubs 16 Oct 1924
Tibshelf, Stewart Meakin (24) fall of coal 1 Jan 1924
Tibshelf, Robert Farnsworth (67) fell off a ladder on the surface on 6 Feb 1924, died 21 Apr 1924
Tibshelf, William Crampton (59) crushed by wagons on the surface 20 Dec 1924
Upper Hartshay, James Key (41) fall of roof 19 Nov 1924
West Hallam, Arthur Watson (24) fall of roof 20 Jan 1924, died 22 May 1924
West Hallam, Francis Key (31) fall of roof 25 Jul 1924
Whitwell, William Walker (48) fall of roof 22 Oct 1924
Williamthorpe, Norman Marsden (57) fall of roof 2 May 1974
Woodside Sam Fowler (57) fall of roof 1 May 1924, died 12 May 1924