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The Decline Of The Industry Continued
After Nationalisation 1947

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1950 - Page 3


Grassmoor Colliery Closed

Seams worked:

  • Top Hard 1846-1863-17/11/1874 and -18/7/1905
  • Dunsill 1’ 9” (0.53m) -28/12/1903
  • 1st Waterloo coal 2’ 0” (0.61m), clunch 8” (0.20m) coal 1’ 9” (0.53m), dirt 1” (0.03m), coal 4” (0.10m), dirt (0.10m), coal 5” (0.13m), total 5’ 7” (1.70m) --/7/1876 and -28/12/1903, and –finished  Apr 1944 abandoned 1/11/1944,
  • 2nd Waterloo -1922; (-1837 and c1847-25/2/1857 at old pit); (Top) Ell or Two Foot 2’ 3” (0.68m) dev 1902-5/5/1909, machine holed on very hard cank floor - 20/8/1909, and 1/11/1941 (Hardwick Unit)
  • Dunston -1884, Deep Soft - -/1/1878; Deep Hard coal 11” 0.28m), black bat 1½” (0.04m), minge 2’ 8” (0.81m), hard list 2½” (0.06m), minge 2’ 1” (0.63m), hard list 3” (0.08m), bright soft 3” (0.08m), total 5’ 6” (1.68m) - 24/5/1938
  • 1st Piper -31/12/1898 and -29/12/1911
  • Furnace, Low Main or Tupton -14/12/1943 and reopened Aug 1953-25/6/1959 finished, abandoned 25/6/1959
  • Tupton Threequarter or Lees 2’ 10” (0.86m) - 28/3/1887, reopened 1925 by cross measures drift from Tupton and Blackshale
  • Silkstone or Blackshale -14/12/1939

Manpower: Messrs Barnes to 1894 then Grassmoor Colliery Co:

  • 1894: No1 Tupton 365, No2 Deep Soft 524, No3 Ell 220, No4 Silkstone 497, No5 Deep Hard 34, No6 Top Hard 28, total 1,668 u/g, 570 s/f, 2,238 total
  • 1897: 1851 u/g 608 s/f, 2,459 total
  • 1900: 1,914 u/g, 704 s/f, 2,618 total
  • 1902: 1,975 u/g, Top Hard fin, 639 s/f, 2,614 total
  • 1905: 1,496 u/g Tupton, Deep Soft, Ell, Silkstone, Deep Hard, Two Foot, 608 s/f, 2,104 total
  • 1908: 1,806 u/g, 676 s/f, 2,482 total
  • 1911: 1,373 u/g plus Piper, 619 s/f, 1,992 total
  • 1913: 1,987 u/g, Piper stood, 724 s/f, 2,711 total
  • 1914: 1,969 u/g, 758 s/f, 2,727 total
  • 1915: 1,710 u/g, 710 s/f, 2,440 total
  • 1916: 1,835 u/g, 722 s/f, 2,557 total
  • 1917: No1 Tupton 374, No2 423 Deep Soft, No4 674 Silkstone, No8 360 Deep Hard, No11 36 Piper, No12 Waterloo 31, 1,898 u/g, 752 s/f, 2,650 total
  • 1918: 1,797 u/g, 759 s/f, 2,556 total
  • 1919: 1,992 u/g, 805 s/f, 2,797 total
  • 1920: 1,995 u/g, 809 s/f max, 2,804 total
  • 1921: 1,986 u/g, 659 s/f, 2,645 total
  • 1922: 2,048 u/g, 679 s/f, 2,727 total
  • 1923: 2,403 u/g, 743 s/f, 3,146 total max
  • 1924: 2,242 u/g max, Piper fin, 731 s/f, 2,973 total
  • 1925: 2,135 u/g, 658 s/f, 2,793 total
  • 1926: 2,057 u/g, 643 s/f, 2,700 total
  • 1927: 1,275 u/g, 525 s/f, 1,800 total
  • 1928: 1,421 u/g, 473 s/f, 1,894 total
  • 1929: 1,569 u/g, 471 s/f, 2,040 total
  • 1930: 1,528 u/g, 474 s/f, 2,002 total
  • 1931: 1,426 u/g 415 s/f, 1,841 total
  • 1932: 1,203 u/g, 416 s/f, 1,619 total
  • 1933: 1,040 u/g, 394 s/f, 1,434 total
  • 1934: 1,131, 398 s/f, 1,529 total
  • 1935: 1,169 u/g, 425 s/f, 1,594 total
  • 1936: 1,168 u/g, 479 s/f, 1,647 total
  • 1937: 1,216, 510 s/f, 1,216 total
  • 1938: 1,089 u/g, 445 s/f, 1,534 total
  • 1939: 1,080 u/g, 443 s/f, 1,523 total
  • 1940: 1,074 u/g, 442 s/f, 1,516 total
  • 1941: 1,138 u/g, 460 s/f, 1,598 total
  • 1942: 1,158 u/g, 473 s/f, 1,631 total
  • 1943: 1,118 u/g, 442 s/f, 1,560 total
  • 1944: 1,197 u/g, 453 s/f, 1,650 total
  • 1945: 516 Piper, 436 Silkstone, Tupton and Threequarter, 230 2nd Waterloo, 1,182 u/g, 479 s/f, 1,661 total.

Manpower and Production since Nationalisation: No1 Area EMD:

  • 1947: Grassmoor Nos 1, 4 and 12: 468,885 tons, Piper, Tupton, Tupton Threequarter, 2nd Waterloo, 1,208 u/g, 471 s/f, 1,679 total
  • 1948: P, S, T, ¾,  2nd W, 480,572 tons, 1,208 u/g, 424 s/f, 1,601 total
  • 1949: now renamed Grassmoor only: P, S, T, ¾, 1st W, 473,862 tons, 1,463 total
  • 1950: Piper, Tupton, Tupton Threequarter, 1st Waterloo, 2nd Waterloo, 1,138, 312 s/f, 1,450 total
  • 1951: P, ¾, 2nd W, 1,155 u/g, 329 s/f, 1,484 total, 495,000 tons
  • 1952: Piper, Threequarter, 1,1917 u/g, 486 s/f, 2,403 total
  • 1953: Piper, Threequarter, 1,917 u/g, 486 s/f
  • 1954: Threequarter, manpower now included under Williamthorpe, 2,132 u/g, 401 s/f, 2,533 total
  • 1955: Threequarter and Tupton
  • 1956: Threequarter, Tupton and Piper
  • 1957: Threequarter, Tupton and Piper
  • 1958: Threequarter, Tupton and Piper
  • 1959: Threequarter, Tupton, Piper
  • 1960: 1st Piper, 2nd Piper
  • 1961: 1st Piper, 2nd Piper
  • 1962: 1st Piper, 2nd Piper
  • 1963: 2nd Piper
  • 1964: 2nd Piper
  • 1965: 2nd Piper
  • 1966: 2nd Piper
  • 1967: 2nd Piper.

Agents:

  • Owner Alfred Barnes
  • Edmund Bromley 1870s
  • Alfred TH Barnes 1880s-1910s
  • IW Lamondby (4147) -1928
  • EL Ford (3984) 1928-1938
  • RH Swallow (2557) 1938-1940
  • WF Tunnicliffe (2730) 1940-1944
  • RH Swallow (2557) 1944-1946
  • John N Booth (3108) 1947-1949
  • GF Gardner (1333) 1949-1952 (to Mining Development Agent)
  • GP Thompson (2914) 1952-1953
  • Len Gross (2351) 1953-1957

Sub-Area Managers:

  • JS Rayner (3077) 1949-1952
  • Ben Kendall (1944) 1952-1953
  • GP Thompson (2914) 1953-1954
  • Arthur G Douthwaite 1954-1956.

Group Managers:

  • Len Gross (2351) acting 1957
  • FT Murphy (4644) 1958-1966 (to Plant Controller)
  • Len E Fletcher (3059) 1966-1967.

Managers:

  • Edmund Bromley 1860s
  • Benjamin Bamford 1870s-1891
  • Thomas Denham Atkinson (1929) 1892-1919
  • IW Lamondby (4147) 1919-1928
  • EL Ford (3984) 1928-1934
  • RH Swallow (2557) (promoted from Undermanager) 1934-1938
  • WF Tunnicliffe (2730) 1938-1944
  • RH Swallow (2557) again 1944-1949
    Now Grassmoor, formerly Nos 1, 4 and 12
  • WH Southern (2602) 1949-1955
  • PI Allsop (5283) 1955-1956 (transferred to Langwith)
  • Charlie L Round (5437) 1957-1960
  • John Gillespie (2090) (transferred from Glapwell No1) 1960-1964
  • Glyn Wyn Rogers (5313) 1964-1967.

Undermanagers: No1:

  • David Knight (742 service cert) pre 1887-1900
  • Isaac Hartshorn (783 / 2) 1900-1924
  • WH Hudson (4111 / 2) 1924-1930
  • Henry Currey (3092 / 1) 1930-1932
  • RH Swallow (2557) 1932-1934
  • WF Tunnicliffe (2730) 1934-1938
  • F Sharpe (2814) 1938-1940
  • GPS Withnall (2857 / 1) 1940-1942
  • Sid C Carter (2797) 1942-1946
  • CE Staples (1051) 1947-1954

No2:

  • Paul Wheatcroft (385 service cert / 2) pre 1887-1922
  • C Barlow (2618) 1923-1925
  • A Holmes (350 / 1) 1925-1930
  • WH Hudson (4111 / 2) 1930-1932
  • GA Sellars (226) 1932-1935
  • FS Manlove (2049 / 2) 1936-39
  • CE Staples (1051 / 2) 1939-40

No3:

  • George Austin (747 service cert) pre 1887-1891
  • Joseph Godber (320 service cert) 1892-1914 abandoned

No4:

  • Arthur Saxton (743 service cert) pre 1887-1912
  • G Godfrey (1999 / 2) 1912-1914, stood, James Austin (3552 / 2) 1917-1925
  • TM Hudson (4441 / 2) 1925-33
  • RH Swallow (2557) 1933-1934 (promoted to Manager)
  • CE Staples (1051 / 2) 1938-1942
  • Sid C Carter (2979) 1942-1943
  • CE Staples (1051) 1943-1945
  • John Gillespie (2090) 1945-1955
  • RMPC Ballantyne (3127 / 2) 1947-1950

No5: stood pre 1887-1893

  • Arthur Saxton (743s) 1893-1898
  • J Wheeldon (386 cert) 1898-1907 abandoned

No6:

  • Arthur Saxton (743 service cert) 1891-1892
  • George Austin (747s) 1892-1899
  • William Cowley (...) 1899-1902
  • S Holmes (3261 cert) 1902-1907 abandoned

No8: sinking  1900

  • J Wheeldon 1910-1918
  • HW James (2958 / 2) 1918-1927
  • A Needham (1196 / 2) 1927-1932
  • Henry Currey (3092) 1933-1934
  • F Sharpe (2814 / 1) 1934-1938

No9:

  • Joseph Godber (320 s) 1901-1909 abandoned

No11:

  • J Wheeldon (386) 1917-1919
  • HW James (2958) 1919-1924, abandoned

No12:

  • J Godber (320) 1917-1923
  • J Reaney (5772 / 2) 1923-1930
  • GA Sellars (226 / 1) 1930-1931
  • RH Swallow (2257 / 1) 1931-1932
  • Henry Currey (3092) 1932-1941)
  • T Grassick (9931 / 2) 1941-1950.

For all:

  • Charlie H Glasby (5672) 1955-1958 (promoted to Deputy Manager Kirkby)
  • Fred Oldfield (4397) 1958-1959
  • C Baxby (7375) 1959-1967.

Surveyors: included

  • Richard G Coke 1860s
  • Coke and Mills 1870s-1880s
  • Coke Turner and Co 1890s
  • IH Saxton 1890s-c1908
  • HW Needham c1908-
  • William D Wadsworth 1920s
  • HD Randall (689) 1930s-40s
  • Fred Owen (1256, Nov 1937) 1940s-1950s
  • Malcolm S Hardy (2628) 1950s-1967.

Fatal Accidents for Grassmoor: included

  • Joseph Bradley (69) and W Fletcher (25) sinkers
  • William Gilbert (23) 20/12/1863
  • William Hallam (22) fall of roof 14/6/1869
  • Thomas Bennett (12) run over by tubs 15/3/1872
  • John Whitworth (19) fall of roof 28/5/1875
  • William Dove (18) fall of roof 9/5/1878
  • Herbert Farnsworth (15) fell out of a wagon on the surface 25/11/1879
  • William Burnham (61) fall of roof 6/3/1882
  • Charles Cooke (14) fall of roof 11/4/1883
  • William Elliott (32) fall of roof 18/6/1883
  • William Lyneham (51) run over by tubs 27/11/1883
  • George Mellor (33) fall of roof 5/8/1884
  • Thomas Concannon (48) run over by tubs 29/3/1886
  • Joseph Marriott (21) fall of roof in a roadway 18/7/1886
  • Charles Perkins (17) run over by a wagon on the surface 20/12/1886
  • Ephraim Reeves (24) fall of roof 10/6/1887 at No4 pit
  • George John Jacques (31) fall of roof 13/2/1888 at No4 pit
  • Fred Bennett (21) fell down the shaft at No2 pit 5/4/1888
  • Sam James Cooke (52) crushed by a wagon on the surface 27/6/1889
  • Reuben Sam Mee (42) crushed by a conductor rope on the surface 10/4/1888
  • William Barber (23) fall of roof 24/8/1888 at No4 pit
  • Charles Newbold (15) run over by a loco on the surface 17/5/1889
  • Ben Marsh (48) fall of coal on 6/12/1889, died 18/3/1890
  • Michael Cryan (57) run over by tubs 31/3/1890 at No4 pit
  • Sam Ward (14) crushed by tubs 4/6/1890
  • Double fatality when Thomas Bamford (53) and Arthur Briddon (16) were buried under a fall of roof at the face 27/4/1892 at No3 pit
  • Henry Ensor (32) was kicked by a pony on 26/1/1893, died on 30/1/1893
  • Emblem Pell (30) fall of coal 27/2/1893
  • David Twyby (37) fall of roof 8/3/1894
  • Ben Barker (56) fall of roof on  8/9/1886, died on 18/9/1886 at No4 pit
  • George Stancil (29) fall of roof 26/8/1897, died on 28/8/1897
  • Owen Holmes (35) and Henry Holmes (35) both killed by a fall at a ripping lip 4/7/1899
  • James William Flint (27) crushed by the cage 31/8/1900 at No2 pit
  • George Wright (18) run over by tubs 29/7/1903 at No5 pit
  • James Harrison (44) fall of roof 31/7/1903 at No2 pit
  • Stephen Edwd Mycock (23) injured his footon the surface and died from tetanus 2/8/1903
  • Ernest Lawton (18) crushed by tubs 18/8/1903 at No4 pit
  • Thomas Blackwell (23) crushed by tubs 5/10/1903 at No4 pit
  • Joe Turner (38) fall of roof at No4 pit 9/10/1905
  • Chales Smith (62) fall of roof at the lip 12/4/1906 at No4 pit
  • James Wass (38) crushed by the cage 14/6/1907 at No2 pit
  • Edward Buddle (72) run over by tubs 17/11/1906 at No4 pit, died 13/7/1907
  • Thomas Hawkins (49) fall of roof 30/8/1907 at No2 pit, died 17/10/1907
  • Soloman Burton (38) fall of coal 11/2/1908 at No5 pit
  • James Preece (45) fall of roof 3/9/1908 at No3 pit
  • John Carlisle (45) struck by a ringer at No5 pit but died of toxaemia on 17/12/1908
  • Arthur Briggs (43) fall of coal at No2 pit, 18/12/1908
  • Joseph Martin (45) fall at lip 12/3/1909 at No4 pit
  • Oliver Bingham (15) run over by tubs 20/4/1909 at No1 pit
  • Thomas England (49) fall of roof 5/7/1909 at No4 pit
  • Henry Beer (40) fall of roof 9/2/1910
  • William Turner (43) fall of roof 17/12/1910
  • Herbert Wilson (42) fall of roof 30/8/1911
  • Owen Ford (19) run over by tubs 7/9/1911
  • Arthur Parker (39) fall of roof 9/5/1913, died 22/5/1913
  • James Smith (59) fall of coal 1/9/1913
  • Walter Bower (34) fall at the ripping lip 16/9/1913
  • Double fatality, Eli Taylor (21) and John Peers (19) fall at the ripping lip 4/6/1914
  • GR Hardy (53) fall of coal 30/9/1915
  • John Litchfield (57) crushed by tubs 3/12/1915, died 24/12/1915
  • Henry Vero (28) fall of roof on 18/10/1915, died 3/2/1916
  • John McDowell (66) run over by wagons on the surface 13/7/1916
  • Joseph Pickering (19) fall at the lip 20/8/1919
  • Thomas Luther Branston (38) fall of roof 26/11/1919
  • Elijah Hollis (45) fall of roof 3/12/1919
  • Harry Key (48) got scratched on 3/12/1919, died from toxaemia 10/12/1919
  • Fred Gee (44) eye injury on 10/1/1920 at No4 pit, died from injury 4/8/1920
  • William Darker (68) fell over 23/9/1922 and died from his injuries on 25/5/1923
  • Reginald Hudson (17) run over by tubs 14/7/1923
  • Joseph Kitchener (44) crushed by tubs 2/2/1924
  • Michael Burns (59) was fatally injured by a fall of roof in No4 pit workings 23/9/1924
  • Robert Hampson (14) crushed by a pony 23/10/1925
  • Robert Greaves (31) fall of roof 10/3/1927
  • Frank Gilding (44) fall of roof 23/9/1927
  • William Watts (51) fall of roof on 1/6/1926, died from his injuries on 28/9/1927
  • Lucas Allen (44) fall of roof 11/11/1927
  • William Henry Paxton (26) fall of roof 17/1/1928, died 5/3/1928
  • William Henry Hallam (28) caught in machinery 13/11/1928
  • John Poyser (48) fall of roof 28/10/1929
  • John William Pollard (48) fall of roof 29/7/1930
  • Arthur Cooper (16) fall of roof 12/5/1931
  • There was an explosion in the No 8 pit Deep Hard seam when 14 men were killed and another 8 were injured. Those who were fatally injured were Walter Brocklehurst (48), Sam Foster (33), Reg Hopkin (27), Alfred Cyril Johnson (30), Ernest Everard Keithley (30), Stanley Kniveton (?), George Lanthal (23), George Muschamp (33), George Peasegood (41), Owen Stevenson (63), Sidney Tunnicliffe (30), Albert Wheatcroft (48), Frank Claude Wilbourne (41) and George Wright (40) on 19/11/1933
  • Charles Taylor (30) crushed by machinery on the surface 11/1/1934
  • Joseph Wheatcroft (55) fall of roof 9/7/1935
  • Joseph Henry Ward (50) crushed by tubs 11/7/1935
  • William Dawes (67) fall of roof 24/6/1940
  • James Bell (27) fall of roof 14/8/1940
  • Francis Walton (17) caught in a conveyor 17/12/1940, died on 18/12/1940
  • Tony Andriolla (15) crushed by tubs 24/12/1940
  • Harold Taylor (45) fall of coal 5/11/1941
  • William Morgan (29) fall of roof 20/5/1942
  • Walter Silcock (18) crushed by tubs 9/2/1946
  • John Varley Young (47) and Sam Turton (37) both killed by a roof fall on 13/6/1947.

 

 

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