P12 - 1993 - Bob Bradley

1993 - Page 12

Bolsover
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Vesting-Day The picture shows the National Coal Board flag hoisted on Vesting Day 1st January 1947 when the mines were nationalised.

Agents:-

(Sir) John P Houfton (1543) 1897-1913
John Bingley (1106) Agent 1913-1918
Sam Evans (1430) Agent 1919-1929
T Eric B Young (511) Agent 1930-1937 (later Sir Eric)
William H Carter (1809) Agent 1937-1938
Wilfred Harry Sansom (858) Agent 1938-1945
John T Rice (816) Agent 1945-1946
Len Gross (2351) Agent 1947-1949

Sub-Area Managers / Group Managers / Production Managers:-

H Kirk (1511) Sub Area Manager 1949-1951
Jack A Tankard (3946) Agent, Sub Area Manager 1952-
Robert (Bob) Scott (4454) Group Manager 1956-1966
Len E Fletcher (3059) Group Manager 1966-.

Managers for Bolsover:-

(Sir) John P Houfton (1543) 1890-1897 (promoted to General Manager of Co Dec 1897, Director of Co 1910, MP for East Nottingham)
John Bingley (1106) 1897-1903 (to Mansfield)
William H Carter (1809) 1903-1912 (transferred to Mansfield)
WR Collier (2915) 1912-1917
Len Henton (3729) 1917-1918 (transferred to Creswell)
Arthur Davis (3316) (transferred from Mansfield) 1918-1927, died in post
A Gill (17) 1927-1929
JH Hesketh (20) 1929-1941
CF Palmer (2394) 1941-1942
John A Jones (1292) 1942-1947 (promoted from Creswell, transferred to Manager Rufford)
G Bishop (3009) 1948-1952
Harry Jones (3630) 1952-1960
Cyril Hazlehurst (4443) 1960-1969 (transferred to Area Safety Engineer)
John G Town (7579) Agent Manager, General Manager 1969-1971 (transferred from Renishaw Park, transferred to Shirebrook, promoted to Production Manager, Chief Mining Engineer - Apr 1986)
William (Bill) W Bryan (8590) 1971-Oct 1975 Agent Manager (transferred to Arkwright, later Salvage & Reclamation Manager Central Area)
Alf Merrington (8179) 1975-1981 (previously Undermanager Sharlston late 1960s, General Manager transferred from Closed Collieries Manager, transferred to Glapwell, later Production Manager - Nov 1986)
William (Bill) T Steel (8544) 1981 (transferred to Shirebrook, then Information & Technology, Doncaster)
Jim Ferreday (7684) May 1982-Feb 1984 (transferred from Renishaw Park, to Safety Engineer Area HQ)
C Arnold Heeley (7692) 1984- (promoted from Deputy Manager Warsop, transferred to Markham - Jan 86)
Len Edwards (7953) 1985 (promoted from Deputy Manager, transferred to Westthorpe after a short spell)
A A (Tony) Seal (10932) 1985-Feb 1987 (died Mar 1988)
Chris JE Smith (10952) June 1987-Mar 1988 (transferred to Shirebrook)
Clive G Ponder (10932) (transferred to Markham, previously Deputy Manager Markham, Undermanager Coventry, Betteshanger, Tilmanstone) Apr 1988-1989
Phil J Mullery (11077) 1989 (promoted from Deputy Manager, transferred to Lea Hall)
Richard Gouldstone (11016) 1989-1991 (transferred from Manager Donisthorpe / Rawdon Complex)
William (Bill) H Denton (11311) 1992-1994 (promoted from Deputy Manager, joined the Coal Authority after closure)
Peter MD McCarthy (10076) (transferred from Coventry for closure) 1994.

Deputy Managers:-

Derek W Kirby (5423) 1968-1974
Phil Goodwin (8917) 1974-1975 (transferred from Glapwell, transferred to Markham)
Ray J Parkin (9900) 1975-1977 left to Australia
Alan Vincent (9400) 1978-1980 (transferred from Pleasley, promoted to Manager Ireland, later joined HMI)
William (Bill) T Steel (8544) 1980-1982 (transferred to Markham)
H Brian Bennett (8306) 1980-1983 (transferred from High Moor, transferred to Shirebrook)
Len Edwards (7953) 1984- (transferred from Renishaw Park, promoted to Manager 1985, transferred to Manager Westthorpe and Whitwell closures) and Chris JE Smith (10952) 1985-1987 (transferred from Arkwright, promoted to Manager)
Phil J Mullery (11077) (promoted 1987-1991, promoted to Manager)
William (Bill) H Denton (11311) 1991-1992 (transferred from Lea Hall, promoted to Manager, previously Undermanager Shirebrook and Assistant Undermanager Ollerton)
Terry S Cordell (10187) 1992-1993 (transferred from Baddesley).

Assistant Manager:-

Jim McGuigan (5695) 1975- (transferred from Warsop).

Undermanagers for Bolsover:-

Thos Green (2854) 1891-1892
J Soar (148) 1892-1903
H Knighton (341) 1903-1908
WR Collier (2915) 1909-1913 (promoted to Manager)
Len Henton (3729) 1913-1918 (promoted to Manager)
John Allcock (111) 1918-1924
HJ Thackeray (2nd) 1924-1929
Tom D Watson (3130) 1930-1932 (promoted to Manager Clipstone)
Thos Beresford (2nd) 1930-1932
Wilfred Harry Sansom (858) 1933-1934 (promoted to Manager Clipstone)
John A Hayes (2352) 1934-1936 (transferred to Thoresby)
John G Helps (2841) 1936-1937 (promoted to Manager Clipstone)
Freddie W Gill (4065) 1937-1941, (later HMI)
John H Smith (2626) 1941-1943
George Bishop (3009) 1943-1947 (promoted to Manager)
J Webster (1386) 1947-
Wally Higginbottom (4816) 1963-1970
Phil Goodwin (transferred from Shirebrook, transferred to Glapwell)
John C Kirkwood (9216) 1970-
Don D Hackett (8170) 1970-
Tom B Durrant (10130) 1973-1977
Lenny HT Hallam (9909) 1976-1978 (promoted to Deputy Manager Westthorpe)
B Ken Trueman (6779) 1978-
Chris JE Smith (10952) 1979-1982 (promoted to Deputy Manager Arkwright)
Robert (Bob) C Hudson (11158) 1983-
Graham G Bramley (2nd) 1984-
Phil J Mullery (11077) promoted to Deputy Manager)
A (Tony) Bestwick (11184) 1986-
Robert P Scott (11353) 1988-1990 (transferred from Cadley Hill, promoted to Deputy Manager Markham)
Peter Chambers (11613) 1989- (transferred from Backshift Undermanager Daw Mill)
Alistair J Davis (11563) 1991-1993
Paul Campion (11285) – 1994.

Assistant Undermanagers included:-

PC Stokes 1986-.

Surveyors included:-

Cyril North (105) -1938
Harrison Bryant Ashmore (1672) 1939-1950s (transferred to Planning dept)
R Holten (….) -1946?
Tom W Bush (845) (Bolsover Co, Surveyor, appointed No3 Area Chief Surveyor) 1947-1962
Ron Beckett (….) 1950s -
Roland Buckley (2...) (to Westthorpe), later Area Planning Engineer
Jack H Milner (1811) 1963-
Stuart Mellor (5425) late 1980-1992
Peter Toone (6….) –1993.

Fatal Accidents Bolsover:-

Ben Glossop, John Pacey, William Pacey, Alfred Smith, all killed when the cage went back down the shaft onto the sinkers, 6/10/1887
Alfred Marsden (22) caught in machinery 9/5/1892, died 12/5/1892
Jim Bromley, George Cullumbine, Frank Shone, Harry Wilson and William Wood were all killed when the hemp winding rope broke and cage went down the shaft 3/6/1897
Lewis Wood (33) ? 10/5/1893
James Barrowcliffe (28) fell down the shaft 13/6/1892
Alfred Wood (34) fall of roof 29/4/1893, died 8/5/1893
Elijah Hall (46) fall of roof 31/5/1894, died 7/6/1894
Edgar Woolley (17) crushed by a wagon on the surface 7/1/1895
Thomas Rees Morris (15) crushed by a wagon on the surface 5/10/1895
German Lee (35) fall of roof 11/2/1896
Henry Wilson (39) and James Bramley (44) fall in a roadway 29/5/1897
Edward Meads (25) injured 25/8/1897, died 7/7/1899
George Cresswell (29) fall of roof 29/8/1899
Sam Scott (24) fall of roof 22/1/1900
Joe Abell (14) run over by tubs 3/3/1900
James Henry Boston (16) crushed by tubs 10/3/1902
Vivian Gibson (17) crushed by tubs 10/3/1902
Edward Flecknell (16) crushed by a wagon on the surface, 10/2/1903
William Henry Allen (49) fall of roof 16/2/1906, died 8/4/1906
Samuel Barke (47) crushed by cage on the surface, 9/11/1906
Charles Leonard Thompson (14) crushed by tubs 18/12/1908, died 19/12/1908
James Bertram Bellamy (18) kicked by a pony 25/6/1909, died 27/6/1909
Jack Clarke (17) fall in a roadway 28/9/1909
Selwyn Farrar (15) crushed by tubs 26/8/1910
John Flint (32) fall of roof 23/1/1911
Arthur William Ward (15) 8/3/1911
James Smith (37) fall of roof 26/9/1911
Jermyn Lee (21) fall of coal 29/9/1911, died 2/10/1911
Lawrence Tighe (15) run over by tubs 27/10/1911
John William Collier (19) run over by tubs 23/2/1912, died 27/4/1912
Albert Gregory (29) fall in a roadway 10/9/1913
John William Houlden (36) fall of roof 1/3/1915
Joseph Robert Tyas (42) fall of roof 21/3/1916
John Roger Havenhand (63) run over by tubs 6/7/1917
John William Smedley (43) fall of roof 7/7/1917
Sam Wyer (38) fall of roof 31/8/1917, died 13/9/1917
Percy Charles Norton (16) crushed by wagons on the surface 31/10/1917
Frederick W Whiting (56) fall of roof 15/8/1918
Leonard Henry Calow (15) kicked by a pony 25/7/1919
Thomas Campion (29) fall of roof 8/12/1919
David McCall (40) strained himself lifting a tub 10/12/1920, died 25/2/1921
William Crossland (40) got fast in cage in pit bottom after overwind, 1/3/1921
Arthur Reginald Burgess (15) kicked by a pony 24/12/1921
Frank Wagstaffe (51) fall of roof 27/1/1923, died 30/1/1923
Fred Gill (31) fall in a roadway 17/2/1923
Francis Beardsley (30) electrocuted 9/9/1923
John Amott (50) crushed by cage 27/7/1924
James Draycott (68) crushed by tubs 24/9/1924
Ernest Potter (26) fall of roof 22/4/1925
Edgar Haywood (42) fall of coal 30/11/1925
Charles Alfred Bluff (35) injury to hand 10/6/1927, died 21/7/1927 of toxaemia
Thomas Henson (38) shotfiring accident 7/10/1927
John Andrew Collins (28) fall of roof 11/7/1928
Joseph Hall (46) fall of roof 14/8/1930
Thomas Turner (52) fall of roof on 28/8/1931, died 2/9/1931
James Arthur Parker (24) run over by tubs 5/2/1932, died 8/2/1932
Richard James (21) fall of roof 27/6/1932
Daniel William Charlesworth (38) fall of roof 21/8/1932
James William Price (34) fall of roof 13/1/1933, died 31/1/1933
Frederick Lilley (43) fell down the shaft 1/4/1933
William Price (54) fall of roof 7/8/1933
John Arthur Redfern (38) fell off a scaffold on the surface 28/8/1933
Thomas Cotterill (58) fall of roof 19/6/1934
Clifford Darlow (44) fall of roof 2/10/1935
Cyril Slaney (38) fall of roof 19/5/1936
Donald Sissons (32) caught in machinery 13/6/1938
George Kemp (38) caught in a conveyor 27/1/1942
Richard Watson (52) fall of roof 27/3/1942, died 7/4/1932
Wilfred McDonald (38) fall of roof 8/7/1942
Shotfiring accident 4/4/1943, Cyril Kirk (43) died 4/4/1943, Nathan Douglas Inger (49) and Albert Moody (40) both died next day 5/4/1943
Harry Thomas (35) fall of roof 24/8/1943
John William Alford (36) fall of roof 25/11/1943
George Alfred Wood (16) crushed by tubs 22/4/1959
Harry Gordon Milward (60) fall of roof 8/7/1964
James Reeve (48) caught in a haulage rope 23/5/1976

Complications arose with the workforce at times as although it was a Derbyshire pit and was sunk by the Bolsover Co there were 2 union branches, with members in Derbyshire NUM and Nottinghamshire NUM.