1929 - Page 3

Clay Cross No4 Pit (Derbyshire) Closed After 71 Years

(Clay Cross Co Ltd) Sunk 1858 was closed abandoned in November 1929

Fatal Accidents: Clay Cross No1

• Joseph Clark (?) explosion of firedamp 5 Aug 1851
• J Farnsworth (boy) fell down shaft 27 Apr 1853
• Anthony Slater (?) coal fell down shaft and hit him 2 Jan 1854
• Joseph Daykin (boy) crushed by corves 31 Jul 1854
• John Brooks (?) crushed by tubs 7 Dec 1854
• Charles Nuttleton (?) fell down shaft 31 Nov 1854
• Sam Brailsford (?) fall of coal 29 May 1855
• William Pendleton (?) fall of coal 22 Jun 1855
• John Parkin (?) crushed by cage 1 Sep 1855
• James Beresford (boy) run over by tubs 6 Sep 1855
• Sam Cooper (37) fall of coal 3 Dec 1855
• Joseph Haywood (37) fall of roof 18 Mar 1856
• William Boot (16) run over by tubs 21 Sep 1857
• E Johnson (30), J Vardy (20), J Green (19) and R Stones (18), all 5 killed when the shaft rope broke 18 Jan 1858
• J Knighton (24) fall of roof 22 Feb 1858
• S Bannister (25) a fall of brick arching 24 Feb 1858
• V Shaw (21) fall of roof 21 Apr 1858
• J Kenny (14) fall of roof 18 Aug 1858
• R Carr (28) shotfiring accident 18 May 1860
• Stephen Buckland (29) fall in a roadway 15 Jun 1860
• J Johnson (30) fall of roof 27 Jul 1863
• Michael Hands (?) and Thomas Gaw killed in an explosion of gas 19 May 1864
• ? Lynam (boy) fall of roof 16 Jun 1864
• ? Miskell (42) fall of roof 20 Jun 1864
• Joseph Kay (45) fell out of the cage down the shaft 23 Sep 1864
• Job Booth (67) fall of roof 23 Sep 1864
• Sam Atkins (55) fall of roof 19 Nov 1864
• Thomas Spencer (19) fall of roof 22 Mar 1865
• 8 killed in an explosion 3 May 1865
• George Allen (?) fall of roof 27 Jul 1865
• John Scott (13) crushed by tubs 17 Aug 1865
• Robert Briggs (32) fall of roof 17 Aug 1865
• William Poynton (45) run over by tubs 17 Aug 1865
• William Walters (76) run over by tubs 27 Oct 1865
• William Cooper (49) fall of roof 17 Jan 1866
• Joseph Davis (76) back broken 12 Mar 1866
• William Searle (29) fall of roof 25 Jun 1866
• Thomas Lowe (50) explosion of powder in Feb 1866, died 20 Oct 1866
• Joseph Barlow (38) fall of roof 14 Mar 1867
• Abner Stanley (44) fell off a scaffold on the surface 24 Apr 1867
• John Barnes (14) run over by tubs 24 Aug 1867
• John Price (22) fall of roof 30 Jul 1868
• Peter Kite (25) explosion of powder 5 Nov 1868
• George H Russell (14) run over by tubs 26 Nov 1868
• Edward Rowland (12) crushed by the cage 2 Oct 1869
• John Smith (19) fall of roof 30 Oct 1869
• Sam Lees (16) run over by tubs 18 Jun 1870
• Abraham England (41) fall of coal 25 Jun 1870
• John Higginbottom (15) fall of roof 20 Oct 1870
• John Holbrook (14) fall of roof 28 Jul 1871
• Benjamin Hughes (48) caught in machinery on the surface 11 Aug 1871
• James Elian (50) fall of roof 17 Oct 1871
• William Warren (35) fall of roof 7 Jun 1872
• Charles Maycock (40) fall of roof 26 Jun 1876
• CS Cauldwell (19) run over by tubs 10 Feb 1873
• William Elliott (27) fall of roof 7 Jun 1873
• Joseph Newton (84) fell over the coke ovens wall 12 Dec 1889
• John Toplis (14) caught in machinery on the surface 12 Mar 1892
• Henry Wright (41) fall in a roadway 22 Jun 1910
• Robert C Robinson (37) run over by a wagon on the surface 30 Nov 1910
• George Edwin Goodwin (25) run over by tubs 31 May 1911
• Augustus Shepherd (40) fall of roof 3 Dec 1912
• Sam Hatton (39) fall of roof 16 Aug 1913
• Joseph Street (31) fall of coal 18 Dec 1913
• Joseph W Palfreyman (17) fall of roof 18 Dec 1913, died 20 Jan 1914.

Clay Cross No2:

• John Lynam (28) fall of roof 20 Mar 1861
• Inrush 11 Jun 1861
• J Morrill (18) explosion of firedamp 16 Aug 1861
• James Fern (30) fall of coal 21 Apr 1870
• James Thurman (32) fall of roof 8 Aug 1874
• William Shufflebottom (39) fall of roof 3 Jul 1878
• Sam Spencer (64) fall of roof 7 Mar 1879
• John Wood (21) crushed by wagons on the surface 2 Nov 1881
• James Reynolds (27) fall of roof 5 Sep 1885
• George Smith (14) run over by tubs 8 Jul 1888
• Thomas Whyman (13) crushed by tubs 14 Jan 1892
• Frank Smedley (52) fall of roof 25 Jul 1893
• James Marshall (14) fell off a tub 1 Jul 1894
• Tom Green (40) fall of coal 17 Nov 1894
• Hugh Broomhall (64) fall of coal 10 Dec 1895, died 13 Dec 1895
• John James Simon (19) injured on 10 Jul 1896, died 13 Jul 1896
• James Ball (53) fall of roof 9 Jul 1901
• John Coop (47) fall of roof 2 Apr 1903
• John Priest (15) kicked by a pony on 24 Nov 1904, died from toxaemia 31 Nov 1904
• Henry Scoffins (17) run over by tubs 5 Jul 1910
• Frank Harrison (18) crushed by tubs 5 Sep 1918
• Joseph Kirkman (36) fall in a roadway 26 Aug 1924
• Fred Gregory (21) crushed by tubs 28 Aug 1925, died 24 Sep 1925.

Clay Cross No3:

• Hosea Marriott (15) caught in machinery on the surface 28 Jan 1879
• William Davis (60) fall of roof 3 May 1881
• James Searston (66) fall in a roadway 17 Jun 1881
• James Williams (15) fall in a roadway 5 Jun 1882
• William Cowlishaw (55) fall in a roadway 4 Feb 1888
• Josiah Potter (17) caught in machinery on the surface 14 Jul 1890.

Clay Cross No4:

• Augustus Cupit (41), George Holmes (30) and William Honse (17) fall of roof 11 Jun 1866
• John Stacey (17) run over by tubs 13 Sep 1875
• George Banner (44) fall of roof 1 Nov 1880
• Thomas Adcroft (26) fall of roof 27 Jul 1881
• Patrick Gannion (44) crushed by wagons on the surface 2 Nov 1881
• William Potter (40) fall of roof 27 Feb 1883
• Joseph Brown (30) fall of roof 6 Jun 1894, died 1 Dec 1894
• Benjamin Hughes (45) fall in a roadway 16 May 1905
• George Calladine (48) fall of roof 11 Oct 1905, died from toxaemia 9 Nov 1905.

Clay Cross No8:

• Joseph Jepson (52) winding rope broke 27 Oct 1875.

Other Colliery Closures in 1929

• Albany Street (W Moore), Ilkeston, Piper
• Belfit Hill (Belfit Hill Colliery Co Ltd), Wingerworth, adit and 2 shafts, headings and rooms, Blackshale 11/4, DC 17 yards (15.5m), UC shaft 12 yards (11m), coal last drawn 2nd Nov as the Winding shaft was out of repair and also the state of trade, G Wilfred Fox (Cert Surveyor 796 and C& G Finalist 1st Class), Arthur D Marriott (918) Surveyor 29 Aug 1930 abandoned)
• Birley Vale (Sheffield Coal Co Ltd), Birley Vale, Silkstone, 9th Nov
• Boothorpe (CW Outram and Co) Leicestershire, Raffaree and clay, finished Aug 1927, abandoned 1929
• Brampton (James Pearson Ltd), Chesterfield, Tupton and Threequarters and fireclay, last worked 6th Feb, Hubert Blackshaw (Service Certificate)
• Broxtowe E452354 N342932 and Nuthall Wood E451729 N343485 (Babbington Coal Co Ltd), Deep Hard stood
• Butterbank (Butterbank Colliery Co Ltd), Furnace Vale, Yard, closed temp Dec, 4/2
• Calow colliery, Blackshale, Dec
• Clay Cross No4, (Clay Cross Co Ltd) sunk in 1858 was abandoned in November 1929
• Coppice No2 (Shipley Collieries Ltd) Shipley, Waterloo, 110/35 men
• Doniker (Doniker Colliery Co) Chisworth
• Furnace Hill (Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Ltd) Eckington, Deep Soft 108/32, No1 DC winding, No2 Ladder shaft, No3 UC winding, Deep Softs 6’ 1” (1.85m) 24 Jul 1929, Surveyor John E Bellis (360)
• Furnace Hill (Sir GR Sitwell Bart and Messrs W and RE Horrox) Deep Softs at 22 yards (20m) and 30½ yards (28m), Eckington seam, met old works, Sitwell Estate office
• Grasscroft No3 (Grasscroft Collieries Ltd) Unstone, Blackshale 22/7, Surveyor BR Russell (909), 1 adit 1in3 dip, air pit 20 yards (19m) deep, worked 1904/5 – 1909 and 1907 – 1912 (see), restart 1920 (see), but stopped for smutty coal
• Heath Wells (various)
• Hill Top (Thomas Jordan) Horsley Woodhouse, Kilburn, Derbyshire, unprofitable, 8 Jun 1929,
  Surveyor George K Burrows (365), met old hollows and coal worked from neighbouring old Kilbourne
• Hill Top Clay Mine (J and J Dyson) Stannington, 20 feet (6m) to 6” (0.15m) and 3 feet (0.91m) clay, discontinued
  23 Nov 1928, abandoned 1 Jan 1929, Position E447660, N346750, Surveyor William H Marriott (Surveyors cert Sheffield University, 25 Oct 1921)
• Ibstock (Ibstock Collieries Ltd) Leicestershire, Agent and Manager Edwin W Lane (856) Undermanager JH Hickman (2997 – 2nd) 346 High Main, Upper Main, Lower Main, Four Feet, Five Feet, Seven Feet, fireclay, 109 s/f, Manager Horace S Shackleton (1775), abandoned 29 Oct 1929
• Lount (Leicestershire Colliery and Pie Co Ltd) Middle Lount seam and fireclay abandoned
• Marsh Quarry (J Needham), Eckington, Flockton
• Nab Lane (The Moor colliery) (EP Maxsted-Robinson), Gleadless, Parkgate seam, bags 8” (0.20m), dirt 3” (0.08m), coal 4’ 8½” (1.44m), dandy 3” (0.08m), met old workings, abandoned 17 Aug 1929, exhaustion of marketable coal, drift mine on site of an old colliery working in 1835, at Hollins End, on border with Yorks, Surveyor R Stewart Armstrong (890) cert 3/9/21
• New Bridge (TS Davies), Old Brampton
• Newcastle (Babbington Coal Co Ltd) at Basford closed in May 1928, was abandoned on 9th Oct 1929 after 76 years, No1 132½ yards (121m) and No2 135½ yards (124m). Owners: sunk by Thomas North 1853-1866, John Wright 1867-1871, Chas Seely and Co 1872-1886, Babbington Coal Co 1887-1929. Low Bright worked -1927, Top Hard 1854-1928, High Hazel (or Newcastle Main) 1916-1928. In 1900 235 underground and 81 surface and in 1920, 344 u/g and 72 s/f
• New Shady Hall ( William Ibbotson and C Potter), Quarry Hill, Troway, Silkstone, day eye, met an old road 8 yards (7m) deep, air shaft 14 feet (4.3m) deep, Silkstone seam, a day eye and an old shaft 8 yards (7m) deep, airshaft 14 feet (4.3m) deep, certified by owner, William Ibbotson, abandoned 20 Mar 1929, Surveyor: WH Burgin (3475 endorsement); also Drift pit (Charles Swift), formerly worked by Ibbotson and Potter, old works met in heads to SW
• Pot Clay Mine (Mansfield Bros Ltd) Woodville, adit and shaft 25 yards (23m), 14 yards (13m) to Raffaree coal (Stockings) 3’ 0” (0.91m) and 2’ 5” (0.74m) clay, Surveyor George J German
• Ramcroft (Ramcroft Colliery Co Ltd, c/o Bullcroft Main Collieries Ltd) at Heath was closed after 13 years on 24th January 1929, except for pumping operations, old workings had been reached and an old adit, Top Hard seam, soft 8” (0.20m), hard 2’ 9” (0.84m), bright 3” (0.08m), cannel 2½” (0.06m), soft coal 1’ 2½” (0.37m), Surveyor Chas Beevers (42)
• Ryefield No1 (Denby Iron and Coal Co Ltd) Denby, Hospital coal, 38/8
• Shireoaks (Shireoaks Colliery Co Ltd), Harricroft, stopped temporarily to install fan
• Southgate (Shireoaks Colliery Co Ltd) see above
• Spital Lane (E Waller) Blackshale, 1in2¼ dip, May
• Trowell Moor (The Cossall Colliery Co Ltd) Alton seam abandoned 30 Sep 1928, plan made 30 Aug 1929, UC shaft 349 yards (319m), 332 yards (303.5m) to inset, coal 2’ 6” (0.76m), Surveyor Frank A Taylor, kept open as a pumping pit, 5/3
• Vale (Sheffield Colliery Co Ltd) Birley Vale, Parkgate, last worked 7 Mar 1928, abandoned 21 Mar 1929, unprofitable, met old works, (note worked previously in 1875 when they too met old works, as explained in a letter by Mr Whalley to Mr Felton), CH Fell (850 service cert).
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Britain Colliery

At Britain colliery (Butterley Co) Gent’s Hard coal (scuds 1’ 1” (0.33m), hard coal 10” (0.25m), minge 1’ 8” (0.51m), hard coal 5” (0.13m) giving a total of 4 feet (1.22m) at 188 yards (172m) deep was stopped on 29th September 1929.

At Teversal (Nottinghamshire) (The Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd) Dunsil seam was stopped in Sep 1928, and abandoned on 29 Jun 1929, Surveyor for the company was James Alexander Burlinson (300).

Note no reference made to him ever doing any surveys and probably the only time he went down the pit was with one of the management and when the ‘Royalty man’ came to check the seam sections on the districts. Those days the Surveyor was an office man because lots of other jobs were foisted on him, but his main function was to make plans, plot the surveys and worked out the appropriate amounts of copyhold and leasehold payments and wayleaves etc. After nationalisation from 1947 Jimmy Burlinson spent his time using a large magnifying glass due to failing eyesight checking over leases, working rights and such like for the National Coal Board, firstly at No2 Area HQ Mansfield Woodhouse to 1949 then at No3 Area HQ, Edwinstowe until the mid 1950s when his sight had almost gone completely and he had to be escorted on and off the bus to work and back usually by one of the Apprentice Surveyors doing their spell at the HQ Survey office under the watchful eye of a sub-Area Surveyor. His son Colin Burlinson, Assistant Surveyor used to transport him by car from the cottage in Teversal pit yard to the bus stop every morning and again collect him from the bus stop at tea time.

Newcastle No1 (Babbington Colliery Co) Newcastle Main seam, abandoned 7 May 1928, Surveyor Lewis H Spencer (517).

Ibstock Colliery Closed After 53 Years

Ibstock Colliery

Ibstock (Leicestershire) (Ibstock Collieries Ltd) sunk around 1876 was abandoned in October 1929. No1, No2 and No1 Adit. Sunk by EM Green pre 1853 to 154 yards (141m), taken over by EM Green and Co 1860s, taken over by
W Whetstone around 1870.
Seams worked:

• Ibstock High Main 5’ 6” (1.68m) 1919 and 1925
• Upper Main
• Four Feet; Five Feet, Seven Feet
• Middle Lount Nov 1928
• Yard 1919-Sep 1921
• Fireclay.
  

Manpower:

• 1919: No1: 468 Upper Main and fireclay, No2: 554 Lower Main and fireclay, Adit: 162 Upper Main, 301 s/f
• 1922: 1,071 u/g, 222 s/f
• 1923: 1,176 u/g, 229 s/f
• 1924: 1,182 u/g, 233 s/f
• 1926: 1,011 u/g, 220 s/f
• 1927: 931 u/g, 225 s/f
• 1929: 346 u/g, 109 s/f. Colliery abandoned.
  

Agents:

• RD Thompson 1880s
• Edwin W Lane (856).
  

Managers:

• Thomas Stubbs (2254) 1880s
• George Spencer (1458) 1890-1892
• John Hay (156) 1892 -
• John J Torrance (2803)
• Edwin W Lane (856) -1929.
  

Undermanagers:

• William Lee (346 cert) -1890
• Thomas Smith (528 cert) 1891-1892
• Alfred Brown (653 cert) 1892-1895c
• Thomas Petcher (2641 cert), W Price (1740 cert) 1895c -
• FG Cutts (1487 - 1st) 1924-
• W Percival (8063 – 2nd)
• JH Hickman (2997– 2nd) - 1929
• WW Somerville (2503 – 2nd) 1926-1929.
  

Fatal Accidents Ibstock: n/a

Furnace Hill colliery (Derbyshire) abandoned Deep Softs, coal 6’ 1” (1.85m) 24 Jul 1929, working had ceased 24 Jul 1928, Surveyor John E Bellis (360 May 1918), 2 shafts 11 yards (10m) and 12 2/3 yards (11.6m). A previous Furnace Hill was owned by Sir CR Sitwell and RE Horrox, Eckington seam, old workings all round.

CB Johnson was Superintendent at Mansfield Woodhouse Mines Rescue Station 1929-1942.

On 11th Sep 1929 John Ingram Gough (31) rescued one man of a pair trapped under a large fall of stone at Bretby. There was a second fall plus 10 tons and Gough at risk to himself had provided cover over the men’s heads by setting timber. The first man was released by Rescue men.

Gough was awarded the Edward medal for bravery along with Sam Crofts a deputy.

Fatal Accidents 1929

• Bretby, Arthur Redfern (32) fall of roof 29 Sep 1929
• Brookhill, Charles Henry Severn (31) fall of roof 1 May 1929
• Coppice, Samuel Beale (29) fell down shaft 21 Nov 1929
• Kilburn, Thomas Phillips (24) fall of roof 4 Jan 1929
• Manners, George Barlow (49) fall of roof 19 Apr 1929
• Mapperley, James Akers (43) run over by tubs 24 Jul 1929
• Stanley, Andrew Disney (25) crushed by tubs 29 Jan 1929
• Woodside, Walter Alfred London (43) crushed by tubs on 28 Oct 1928, died 29 Sep 1929
• Woodside, Roland Sharley (30) fell down shaft 21 Nov 1929.