P2 - 1982 - Bob Bradley

1982 - Page 2

- New Hucknall Continued -

Agents:

TE Fenwick Agent pre 1887-
Capt Percy Muschamp Agent 1910-1935
EW Percy Muschamp (980) Agent 1935-1945
Henry Westmoreland (2062) Agent 1945-1946
Jack L Merry (542) Agent 1947-
F Donald Severn (977) Agent

Sub-Area Managers / Group Managers / Production Managers: Jack L Merry (542) 1947-

Les R Watkin (4376) Group Manager 1964-

Managers for New Hucknall:

Simeon Watson (406c) 1876-1900 (transferred to Bentinck)
John Ensor (1631) 1900-1906
Henry Holt (1463) 1906-1911
William HB Stevens (2322) 1911-1934
EW Percy Muschamp (980) Manager 1935-1937 and Agent 1935-1945
RS Brereton (2206) 1937
Walter Sharpe (2223) 1938-1944 (transferred to Bentinck)
Alex L Middleton (3342) 1944-1950 (transferred to Brookhill)
Jack L Merry (542) Agent and Sub-Area Manager 1947-
Jack S Fletcher (2139) 1950-1958 (transferred from B Winning)
John L Collinson (5737) 1958-1962, (promoted to Newstead, then Production Manager and later became the NCB Chief Safety Engineer)
Horace Wenman (3254) 1963-1964 (transferred from Blackwell A Winning)
A Russell Keddie (5610) 1965 (promoted from Blackwell A Winning, transferred to Sutton)
Joe H Cosford (5990) 1966-1970 (transferred from Sutton)
Frank Dunn (5647) 1971
Trevor T Allbrighton (3897) 1972-1973 (transferred from Cossall)
Albert Knight (7873) 1973-1974 (transferred to Babbington)
Jack Hand (8171) 1975-1977 (promoted from Bentinck, transferred to Hucknall)
W Vic Brown (9749) 1977-1979 (promoted from Pye Hill, transferred to Annesley)
Lyn Haywood (7866) 1979-1982 (promoted from Deputy Manager).

Deputy Managers:

Lyn Haywood (7866) 1973-1979 (promoted to Manager).

Undermanagers for New Hucknall:

John Blood (738s) pre 1887-1894
Jacob Wilson (No4c / 2nd) No1 1891-
William Fidler (316) No3 1894-1913 & No1 1913-1931
William Keeling (2007) No3 1895- and No2 -1932
J Ensor (1631) No1 1897-1899, promoted to Manager
W Smith (2013) No1 1899-1908
Harold E Bonsor (No3 1908-1913 and No1 1913-1934)
W Jackson No3 1932-1937
A Ernest White (2nd) 1937-1938 (and Surveyor?)
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Harold J Ely (3175 / 2) 1941-1945 (transferred to Bentinck)
Eric Alcock (3411 / 2) 1945-1965
Charlie Hart (3640 / 2) 1966-1968 (transferred from Kirkby)
U William (Bill) Hallam (6083) 1968-1980 (transferred from Selston).

Assistant Undermanagers included:

Dave A Howarth (11218) (promoted from Technical Assistant Calverton 1981, transferred to Newstead 1982).

Technical Assistants included

A John Wardle 1966 (previously Ventilation Officer Selston 1961, promoted to Babbington, later Undermanager Annesley, Manager Bentinck 1976, Production Manager, eventually a Director)

Surveyors included:

John Thomas Boot 1880s - 1890s
Louis Edmond Sidebottom 1900s
George Warner (left to set up Warner & Dean, Architects & Surveyors) - 1930s
Harry C Ward 1930s (later to Division, then North Nottinghamshire Area Surveyor 1967 - 1968)
A Ernest White Undermanager (2nd Class cert) 1938 -
Horace Gething Chief Surveyor to Co 1920s - 1940 (died in post, of TB)
William Henry Emerson (861) 1940 - 1944 (promoted to Sub-Area Surveyor)
Robert Bailey (1109), 1944 - 1947, transferred to Welbeck.
A Jim Hanson (2365) 1948 - 1956 (served in Royal Engineers during the War) transferred to Silverhill - 1978, then Teversal 1978 - 1980
Roy W Garrett JP (2834) (1956 - 1970 promoted from Kirkby, transferred to Newstead)
Brian F Stevenson (4405) 1970 - 1982 (transferred to Bentinck).

Andrew W Quincey (1901) started as a pit boy at 3s 6d (17½p) a day – 12s 6d (62½p ) a week, transferred to Survey department, granted a scholarship to Nottingham University, qualified in 1947, promoted to Surveyor Blackwell A Winning 1949 to closure in 1969.

Two half winding wheels as a reminder of the colliery are situated at the top of Common Road.

Non Fatal Accidents (only 3 listed):

Maurice George Trigg (35) 119, Common Road, Huthwaite. 20-Nov-1900, Fall in a roadway, Severe injuries
William Wilkinson, Sutton In Ashfield. 26 Jan 1905, Overwind, Fractured leg
William Mansell, Huthwaite, 26 Jan 1905, Overwind, Fractured leg

Fatal Accidents New Hucknall:

? Radford (?) 9/7/1880
William Hartwell (33) fall of roof 13/3/1882, died 21/3/1882
George Shooter (55) run over by wagons on the surface 14/6/1882
Joseph McQuinn (25) fall of roof 1/3/1883
George Berry (23) fall of roof 8/9/1883
William Barnes (..?) 20/3/1884
Arthur Keeton (16) run over by tubs 14/7/1884
John Charles Price (17) fell from a wagon on the surface 19/2/1885
Joseph Hames (45) fall of roof 31/12/1885
Charlie Stringfellow (..?) 20/1/1886
Richard Rudd (38) fall of roof 20/2/1886
Isaac Hayes (44) fall of roof 20/2/1886
Thomas Turner (41) fell on the surface 23/3/1886
William Wilson (19) run over by tubs 25/4/1887
Edwin Clarke (..?) 13/10/1887
Luther Hutchinson (16) Caught in Machinery 9/5/1888
John Heeley (?) 18/2/1889
George Wass (21) 8/3/1890
William Brassington (35) Fall of Roof 9/10/1890
George Mansell (57) Fall in a Roadway 6/10/1890
George Riley (48) 7/2/1893 *
William Henry Riley (47) 2/2/1893 Fall of coal *
Edward Blood (31) 28/2/1893 Crushed by Cage
William Turner (?) 23/1/1894
Thomas Marshall (50) 20/6/1895 Fall of coal
George Tomlinson (64), father, 21/9/1898 ***
John Gascoigne (?) 1/2/1900
Maurice George Trigg (35) Fall of Coal 9/12/1900
Frederick Herrod (14) 12/1/1901 **
John Thomas Herrod (13) Crushed by Tubs 10/1/1901 **
Richard Purseglove (54) 14/2/1901
Thomas Radford (15) 16/2/1901
- Bucklow (?) 7/5/1901*?
John Kitchener (58) Fall of Roof 21/11/1902
Thomas Henry Dring Francis (16) Run over by tubs 9/12/1902
E Bucklow (?) 7/1/1903*?
Valentine William Rhodes (42) Fall of Roof 21/11/1902
William Hurt (46) 26/1/1904
Harold Arthur Huskinson (14) Fell over, struck head on a tub 10/2/1904 died 12/2/1904
John Fowkes (69) 1/6/1905
George Greeters (47) 7/6/1905
John Henry Hill (42) Fall of roof 20/2/1906
Alfred Turner (15) Caught in machinery on the surface 20/3/1906
Thomas Wood (28) 5/10/1906
Charles Evans Wall (16) Fall in a Roadway 4/10/1907
James Starr (14) Hit by falling timber stack, on the surface 25/6/1908
James Harrison (34) Run over by wagons on the surface 1/4/1909
John Edward Bilsdon (29) Run over by wagons on the surface 28/3/1909 Died 21/10/1909
Robert Alcock (45) Fall of Roof 27/1/1910
Henry Derrick (65) Fall of Roof 11/8/1910 Died 25/8/1910
John Sharpe (27) Fall of Roof 8/5/1911
Sam Bonser (18) Injured by a haulage rope 12/12/1911
Gresham Bowler (20) Fall of Roof 29/3/1913
Alfred Marshall (31) Fall of Roof 3/10/1913
William Ashley (58) Fall of Roof 17/3/1914
William Henry Burrows (30) Fall of Roof 4/2/1915 Died of Septicaemia 22/2/1915
John Charles Pegg (45) Fall of Roof 20/8/1915
Henry Emsall (52) 16/12/1915
Elijah Bradley (59) Injured hand on 9/12/1916, death from Septicaemia 23/12/1916
Sam Bonser (26) Fall of Roof 23/11/1917
Job William Trueman (38) Fall of Roof 7/7/1917 Died 19/3/1918
Richard Johnson (48) Shotfiring accident 24/4/1918
Jos Thompson (53) Fall of Roof 11/10/1918 Died 13/10/1918
Joseph Wilfred Bird (25) Fall of Roof 21/1/1920
Albert Oliver (24) Fall of Roof 13/2/1920
Robert Hudson (16) 3/2/1921
George Tomlinson (64) Fall of Roof - son (see 1898), 22/9/1922 **
Arthur Patella (14) Crushed by Tubs 4/10/1922
William Henry Sevens (40) Fall of Roof 26/3/1923
Arthur Gelsthorpe (45) Fall of Roof 28/2/1924
Walter Hudson (42) Fall of Roof 28/1/1924 Died 27/2/1924
William Ernest Lee (?) 6/3/1924
William Hopkinson (31) ?/5/1924
Cyril Truswell (15) 5/5/1924
John Henry Palfreyman (42) -/8/1924
Henry Walker (47) 25/11/1925
Thomas Allen (72) 16/2/1926
Arthur Simms (62) Fall of Roof 31/8/1927 Died 30/9/1927
Charles Vardy (22) Caught in Machinery 4/11/1927
Walter Williams (51) 16/4/1928
William Walter Taylor (51) Fall of Roof 16/4/1928
- Goodhall (?) 7/5/1928
Arthur Wilson (36) Fall of Roof 26/6/1928
George Farmer (57) 15/10/1928 Injured on Haulage Died 18/2/1929
Ernest Lee (39) Fall of Roof 6/3/1929
Thomas Garrett Walters (20) Fall in Roadway 15/6/1929
William Henry Hall (22) Asphyxiated, on the Surface waste tip 29/7/1929
Joseph Fox (49) Injured hand 11/7/1929 Died from Cellulitis 29/7/1929
Arthur Edwin Hughes (44) injured hand, died from Toxaemia 23/3/1930
Lawrence Naylor (53) Fall of Roof 15/7/1930 Died 18/7/1930
James E J Abbott (54) Fall of Roof 1/1/1931 Died 12/1/1931
Henry Dove (47) Caught in machinery, on the surface 4/9/1933
Arthur Parnell Bacon (33) Fall of Roof 4/10/1927 Died 12/10/1937
John Alfred Bowler (32) Fall of Roof 30/1/1940 Died 31/1/1940
Thomas Hynd (68) Injured foot on surface 27/10/1941 Death from Gangrene 23/12/1941
Wilfred Bryant (58) Fall of Roof 2/5/1942 Died 21/1/1945
Henry Marshall (38) Fall of Roof 21/9/1948
Herbert Hunt (59) Hit by a wagon door on surface 1/11/1949
Reginald Arthur Wood (51) Fall of roof _/_/1936 Died from Cerebral Thrombosis 6/3/1951
Jack Nunn (49) Fall of Roof 2/6/1951
William Arthur Buxton (39) Caught in a Coal Cutter 4/5/1956
Arthur Bingham (61) Fall of Roof 13/1/1958 Died 2/2/1958