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Markham Closed After 109 Years
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Agents:
- Jos Humble –1887
- A Winter Barnes Agent 1887-
- RW Cuthbertson (2266) Agent 1909-1913
- W Waplington (501) Agent 1918-1920
- Denis N Turner Agent 1920-1923
- John Hunter Agent 1923-1929
- Reg (Rex) Ringham (760) Agent 1930-1939
- H Kirk (1511) Agent 1940-
- Len Gross (2351) Agent 1947-
Sub-Area Managers / Group Managers / Production Managers:
- Ben Kendall (1944) Sub-Area Manager 1949-1951
- AW Baddeley (2543) Sub-Area Manager 1952-1955, Group Manager 1956-
Managers for Markham:
- Jos Humble and Agent pre 1883-1887, Manager 1887-1894
- SB Gilroy (76 service cert) 1894-1895 for both, (No1) 1895-1896
- T Richardson (No2) (821) 1895-1897
- WH Gregory (No1) (799) 1896-1897 and for both 1897-1904 (transferred to Seymour)
- John T Greensmith (2292) 1904-1905
- RW Cuthbertson (2266) 1905-1909 (transferred from Hartington)
- J Neal (1242) 1909-1912
- AB Hewitt (2505) 1912-1914
- F Richardson (2764) 1915-1917
- WR Wilson (3731) 1917-1920 for both (then No1 and Palterton) 1920-1921
- TW Allen (1152) (No2) 1920-1921 then for all 1921-1922
- RG Eaton (13) for all 1922-1923
- Henry Curry for all 1923-1928
- H Kirk (1511) for all 1929-1932
- LW Limb (1792) for all 1933-1936
- William H Fry (2089) for all May 1937-1939
- Ben Kendall (1944) for all 1940-1942
- Len Gross (2351) for all 1942-1946
- A Belfitt (3052) (No1 Blackshale) 1947-
- TW Allen (1152)
- Harry Wright (3911) (No2 Ell) 1947-
- Roland Weekley (3988) (No4 Deep Hard) 1947-
- Peter Hallam (4279) 1956-1965 (promoted from Clipstone, transferred to Deputy Area Safety Engineer North Nottinghamshire, later Area Safety Engineer, then Mines Rescue Manager)
- Richard S Webb (5449) (No1) 1963-1967 (promoted from Astley Green, Lancs, later Safety Engineer HQ)
- A Russell Dove (4719) (No2) 1963-1967
- Len Harris (7388) (No4) 1966-1967 (transferred from Manager High Moor, transferred to Manager Markham No2, promoted to Agent Manager Langwith, then General Manager Shirebrook Production Manager 1970, later Director Central Area, then Nottinghamshire Area)
- H David Saywood (4701) General Manager for combined mine 1967-
- A (Tony) F Deakin (7903) General Manager 1971-1973 (transferred from Glapwell, promoted to Production Manager, later Chief Mining Engineer, Deputy Director Yorks, Director South Midlands)
- Jim Rodgers (6128) 1973-1974 General Manager
- Keith J Otter (8932) 1974-1978 (transferred from Manager Whitwell, promoted to Production Manager, later DCME North Derbyshire 1983)
- Don Hotchkiss (8632) 1979-1987
- C Arnold Heeley (7692) 1987-1988
- Alec Galloway (10934) 1988-1989 (transferred to Manager Daw Mill, later Deputy Director then Director of Mining RJB Mining, then Strategy and Technical Director UK Coal)
- Clive G Ponder (10932) 1989- (transferred from Bolsover, later transferred to Maltby)
- Terry S Cordell (10187) -1993
- Peter MD McCarthy (10076) at closure 1993-1994.
Deputy Managers:
- William Foster (6008) 1967-
- C Arnold Heeley (7692) 1967-1970
- William (Bill) W Bryan (8590) 1971-1976 (later Manager Arkwright)
- Phil Goodwin (8917) 1976-1979 (transferred from Bolsover, promoted to Manager Whitwell, later Manager Warsop)
- William (Bill) T Steel (8544) 1973- (later Manager Shirebrook)
- Dennis Morgan (10753) 1980-
- Brian Bell (9548) 1979-1982 (transferred from Pleasley, promoted to Manager)
- Frank A Fletcher (9085) 1982-1983
- Don Holland (8039) 1983-1985
- Clive Ponder (10936) Feb 1986-June 1988 (promoted from South Yorkshire Area, promoted to Manager Bolsover)
- Mick W Ramsey (11190) 1988-
- Dennis Morgan (10753) (Senior Deputy Manager) – 1989 (promoted to Manager Warsop)
- R (Bob) P Scott (11353) 1987-1991
- Eric R Burton (11063) 1991-
- A Mark Austrums (11430) (Services) 1991-1993.
Assistant Managers:
- JH Eric Dobb (4407) (No1) 1963-
- William (Bill) W Bryan (8590) 1969-1970 (promoted to Deputy Manager)
- Tom J Charlesworth (7857) 1976-
- Lol Roberts (7395) 1983-1985
- Ian G Slater (8804) 1985-1987
- Mark RH Hoare (11126) 1987-.
Technical Support:
- Don W Heathcote 1991-1993.
Undermanagers for Markham:
- C Hewitson (No1) pre 1887-1888
- J Hewitson (No2) pre 1887-1888
- John Broadhead (No1) 1888-1894 and (No2) 1894-1896 and (No1) 1896-1897, for both 1897-
- RS Knight (No2) 1888-1894 and (No1) 1894-1896
- George Revill (No2) 1890-1892
- J Barber (No2) 1896-1897
- W Bunting for both 1900-1901
- J Ottewell for both 1901-1906 and No1 1906-1927
- John Hancock (No2) 1906-1908
- AH Cooper (No2) 1909-1922
- JW Fidler (No2) 1923-1929
- Charlie W Ringham (2199) (No1) 1928-1929 and Top Hard 1929-1931 (later Group Manager and HQ)
- L Limb (1792) 1928-1932 (promoted to Manager)
- Ben Kendall (1944) (No2) 1930-1933 and for all 1933-1935 and for No1, No2, No4 1936-1937
- A Wilde (No1) 1937-1938 and (No4) 1938-
- Len Gross (2351) (No2) 1937-1938
- Bruce Whittington (No4) May 1937-1938 (promoted from Overman Warsop)
- AW Fitz (No1) 1938-1939
- Joe J Brealey (1097) (No2) 1938-1939
- Jack Ridgeway (2nd) (No1) 1940-1952
- L Hardy (No2) 1940-1942
- M Eyre (No4) 1940-1942
- Sam Baker (4201) (No2) 1942-1946
- A Belfitt (3052) (No4) 1942-1943
- George Walker (3903) (No4) 1944-1946
- Roland Weekley (3988) 1946 (promoted to Manager)
- J Brian Perry (3119) (No4) 1947-1949 (to Manager Warsop)
- Eric Dobb (4407) (No2) 1947-
- C Bishop (No4) 1949-
- Peter I Allsop (5283) (return from scholarship USA, Feb 1953-55 promoted to Manager Grassmoor)
- Fred Oldfield (4397) (No1) 1953-1957
- Geoff Buxton (5728) (No4) 1956-1958 (joined HMI)
- Chris Gifford (5831) (No2) 1956- to HMI
- JH Eric Dobb (4407) (No2) 1956-
- Rob L Tighe (4871) (No1) 1957-
- FV Haywood (2nd) (No4) 1958-
- L Hardy (1280)
- M Eyre (2713)
- Sam Baker (4201)
- George Walker (3903)
- Derek W Kirby (5423) (No2) 1963-1965
- C Arnold Heeley (7692) (No4) 1963-1967
- F Geoff Hicken (7868) (No2) 1965-
- Don D Hackett (8170) 1967-
- Jim McGuigan (5965) 1967-1970
- John Dawson (9779) 1969-
- S Wood (2nd) 1971-
- Rob J Parkin (9900) 1971-
- Lol Roberts (7395) 1971-
- Eric Hall (9482) 1976-
- Ian G Slater (8804) 1976-
- Phil Goodwin -1979 (promoted to Manager Whitwell)
- Dennis Morgan (10753) 1976-1980 (promoted to Deputy Manager)
- Mick J Higgins (10805) 1978- (transferred from Undermanager Sutton Manor, Lancs, previously Assistant to Manager, promoted to Assistant Manager (Planning) Whitwell Mar 1980)
- Jeff Fletcher (11017) 1978-
- Ian J Cook (11219) 1983-
- Reg Lane (11070) 1983-
- Alan Vincent (9400) (later Manager Ireland then joined HMI)
- Charlie V Gale (9092) 1983-
- Peter E Ward (9765) 1983-
- R (Bob) Seward (11558) 1984-
- Mark RH Hoare (11126) 1986
- John A Kelly (11276) 1987-
- Chris M Kent (11289) 1988-
- T Richard Ward (11703) 1991-1993.
Assistant Undermanagers included
- Arthur R Randle (7553) 1960 (promoted from Overman Whitwell, promoted to Undermanager Bramley Vale 1961.
Surveyors included:
- E W... 1880s-90s
- JA Verner 1890s-1900s…
- Joshua Edwin Leek (310) 1920s-1947 (Company Surveyor transferred to Area Planner Bolsover HQ)
- Fred Brown (1572) 1947-1954 (promoted, transferred to Glapwell)
- then three separate Surveyors, No1 pit R William Anstey (2172, Oct 1949) 1954-1971 (promoted to Group Surveyor)
- No2 pit Doug Yates (died in post?)
- No4 pit Frank Kenny (left to Nottinghamshire County Council)
- Changed back to one Surveyor for the complex (from 1st September 1967)
- Michael Bown (2104) 1970- (transferred from Arkwright?)
- Denis Jones (1843 qual Mar 1947) -1985
- Brian Crossland (5430) 1986-1992
- John Bown (6493) 1/5/1992-1994.
Fatal Accidents Markham
- Isaac Turton (24) fall of coal 12/5/1885
- Benjamin Clark (17) run over by tubs 21/5/1885
- William Glossop (29), Alf Smith (36), John Pacey (39) and William Pacey (17) all 4 killed due to an overwind on 3/10/1887
- John Widdowson (36) fall of roof 24/10/1887
- James Kirkby (27) fall of roof 10/3/1890
- Arthur Hinton (13) run over by tubs 17/9/1890
- Charles Speed (50) crushed by wagon on the surface 30/5/1891
- John Knowles (39) fall of roof 10/11/1891
- Patrick Quinn (32) fall of side 4/10/1895, died 5/10/1895
- Henry Rodgers (52) fall of roof 5/5/1897
- Herbert Mosely (25) fell down a staple shaft 27/4/1898
- Arthur Foulks (14) run over by tubs 4/8/1898
- George Ernest Brooks (38) fall of roof 20/2/1899
- Walter Wallace (13) fall in a roadway 12/6/1899
- Arthur Hunter (17) run over by tubs 17/8/1899
- James Bush (36) fall of roof 4/9/1901
- William Burrows (30) fall in a roadway 1/3/1904
- Walter Beresford (14) run over by tubs 18/5/1905
- John Eyre (39) fall of coal 26/3/1906
- James Jewitt (60) fall of roof 6/12/1907, died 9/12/1907
- John Samuel Tipler (16) run over by tubs 11/12/1908
- Joseph Fulwood (39) fall of roof 9/2/1909
- Samuel Perry (43) fall of roof 17/2/1909
- Thomas Stevenson (55) fall of roof 26/3/1909, died 3/4/1909
- Frederick W Shepherd (23) fall of roof 5/4/1909
- Fenton Fletcher (17) fall of coal1/9/1909
- ? Fletcher (18) ? 9/9/1909
- Wilfred Sheldon (22) run over by tubs 25/11/1910
- Anthony Tomlinson (15) crushed by tubs 2/12/1911
- Oliver Glossop (16) run over by wagon on the surface 10/2/1912
- Alfred Whitehead (27) fall of roof 26/8/1912, died 5/9/1912
- William H Shemwell (30) Fall of roof? -/-/1916
- William Bottoms (63) run over by tubs 27/5/1916, died 30/5/1916
- Alfred Atkins (40) fall of roof 28/4/1917
- William Henry Sparrow (26) caught in a coal cutter 12/1/1918
- Peter Carley (17) run over by wagons on the surface 22/2/1922
- Sidney Rhodes (32) fall in a roadway 28/12/1923
- William Rounds (60) kicked by a pony 9/3/1924, died 19/3/1924
- Harold Jeavons (22) run over by tubs 23/10/1924
- Walter Reddish (31) fall of roof 30/12/1924, died 5/1/1925
- John Samuel Butler (34) fall of roof 24/7/1925
- George Hodgson (17) crushed by tubs 23/12/1926
- Walter Stevenson (21) crushed by cage 12/5/1927
- Alfred Perrins (35) fall of roof 14/1/1928, died 14/1/1928
- Richard Henry Hill (63) run over by tubs 9/5/1928
- George Herbert Mallard (33) fall of roof 4/12/1928
- Ben Tuxford (46) caught in machinery on the surface 7/6/1929
- Albert Wright (48) crushed by tubs 20/11/1929
- George Dixon (38) fall of roof 25/1/1930
- Walter Goacher (35) fall of roof 14/9/1930, died 7/10/1930
- Joseph Lavender (54) run over by tubs 6/11/1930
- George Beddenham (53) crushed by tubs 27/11/1930
- John William Bath (29) fall of roof 6/12/1930
- Herbert Mellors (63) fall of roof 21/7/1931
- William Thomas Prince (40) injured his hand 24/9/1931, died from toxaemia 4/10/1931
- Joseph Jones (37) fall of roof 31/1/1932
- Robert Herbert Johnson (52) fall of roof 9/4/1932
- William Henry Sowerby (37) fall of roof 27/6/1932
- George Barnett (47) fall of roof 5/7/1932
- Herbert Elliott Frith (50) fall of roof 4/7/1932, died 14/8/1932
- Thomas Fahey (29) fall of roof 30/11/1932
- George Cottingham (45) fall of roof 7/7/1933
- William Robinson (37) fall of roof 17/7/1933
- Harold Morpus (28) fall of roof 14/8/1933
- Thomas Cooper (48) fall of roof 30/10/1933
- George Asher (49) fall of roof 7/11/1933
- John Thomas Turner (60) crushed by wagons on the surface 19/10/1934
- David Yanold (42) fall of roof 15/3/1935
- John Hedley Everdine (35) crushed by tubs 28/7/1935
- William Henry Chambers (47) fall of roof 20/7/1935, died 13/10/1935
- Jerimiah Clayton (33) fall of roof 21/1/1936, died 22/1/1936
- John Crehan (54) fall of roof 20/9/1936, died 29/10/1936
- All the following 9 men were killed in a firedamp explosion on 21/2/1937...
- Wilfred Edmund Slater (30)
- Edmund Smith (29)
- Joseph Furness (28)
- William Henry Cauldwell (49)
- Lionel Cadywould (21)
- Fred Roddy (28)
- Charles Morton (28)
- Edward Baggaley (34)
- Ralph Marsden (44) who died the following day 22/2/1937
- John Higginson (61) crushed by the cage 22/6/1937
- The following 79 men were killed in a coal dust explosion on 10/5/1938...
- Alfred Lamb (26)
- Mathew Williams (36)
- Arthur Henson (45)
- Herbert Wale (40)
- Frank Smith (26)
- Felix Linathan (48)
- Leonard Atkin (53)
- Herbert Brough (63)
- Henry George Jackson (43)
- Ben Wallace (29)
- Sam Bray (20)
- Mark Richards (26)
- Robert Gregson (36)
- David Bann (54)
- Alfred Garland (52)
- Cyril Buckley (40)
- George Whiteley (36)
- Arthur May (59)
- Albert Bell (37)
- William Pickering (34)
- John Thomas Brown (26)
- Ernest Albert Rogers (19)
- James Walter Frost (47)
- Arthur Roper (61)
- William E Whelpton (32)
- Robert Sims (57)
- Thomas Jones (49)
- Leonard Keller (26)
- James Allen (25)
- William W Watson (58)
- Stanley Lodge (40)
- George Davidson (51)
- Arthur Carter (40)
- Joseph Lilley (30)
- Colin Gee Pemberton (30)
- Sam L Kerry (28)
- Enoch Jones (21)
- Joseph Hibbard (51)
- Herbert Hargreaves Senior (48)
- Herbert Hargreaves junior (27)
- Harry Lavender (39)
- Henry Hudson (26)
- Edward George Pether (30)
- Clarence Silcock (42)
- Arthur Bray (34)
- Fred Taylor (53)
- Redvers B Whitehead (37)
- Denton Whelpdale (39)
- Joe Hardy (61)
- John William Hadley (32)
- John McConnon (32)
- Fred Monks (60)
- John William Common (33)
- Rowe Kirk (49)
- William John Granger (49)
- Frank Jones (33)
- Clarence Hill (29)
- Henry Albert (46)
- John Henry Bradford (46)
- George Cowley (38)
- John W Lievesley (38)
- Samuel Edward Salt (41)
- Leslie Hargeaves (23)
- Walter Bluer (41)
- Robert Henry Grainer (21)
- Harry Taylor (32)
- Bernard Gregory (34)
- James Stanley Rowland (34)
- Arthur Brown (18)
- Ambrose Grainer (41)
- Lawrence Jacklin (28)
- Joseph Greary (55)
- Charles Brown (27)
- Cyril Clarence Palmer (39)
- William Sherwin (64)
- Wilfred Haywood (36)
- Alfred Furness (39)
- Thomas George Yates (38)
- Robert Henry Wood (22)
- Alfred Simpson (33) crushed by tubs 5/8/1938
- Henry Reddish (40) fall of roof 11/9/1938, died 13/11/1938
- Henry Sidwell (40) fall of roof 6/10/1937, died from toxaemia 16/11/1938
- Ben Goodall (48) fall of roof 24/1/1939
- Ernest hill (25) crushed by tubs 2/10/1939, died 5/10/1939
- William Henry Farndon (43) fall of roof 20/10/1939
- Charles Wing (37) fall of roof 31/8/1939, died 18/11/1939
- William Beardsley (63) crushed by cage 1/4/1940
- Arthur Johnson (57) fall of roof 23/9/1940
- Sam Barthorpe (40) fall of roof 30/9/1940
- Claud Sherman (24) crushed by tubs 20/2/1941
- William G Button (24) crushed by tubs 28/6/1941
- Cyril Webb (14) crushed by tubs 29/9/1941
- Henry Hutton (?) fall of roof 16/10/1941
- Douglas Allen (22) caught in a conveyor 26/7/1942
- George Mills (64) fall of roof 5/10/1942
- William Cole (?) crushed by tubs 22/6/1943
- Albert King (40) fall of roof 3/12/1943
- Francis Savory (38) fall of roof 12/11/1944
- Henry Sallis (21) run over by tubs 11/12/1944
- William Edward Unwin (49) run over by tubs 8/9/1945
- Wilfred Pollending (40) fell over a rail 5/2/1956, died 15/2/1946
- Wilfred Wilmot (49) fall of roof 21/2/1946
- The following 5 were killed when a manrider haulage rope broke on 18/6/1946
- Alfred Carter (47)
- Ebenezer Whitworth (36)
- Arthur Barley (41)
- Walter William Gettings (40)
- Frederick G Powers (36)
- John William Usher (49) died 2 days later on 20/6/1946
- Sidney St John S Smith (46) fall of roof 3/3/1949
- Arthur Williamson (39) fall of roof 11/5/1949
- Eilliam Clifford (59) crushed by a hoist on the surface 17/10/1949
- John Stevens (62) fall of roof -/3/1932, died 21/5/1950
- Fred Thompson (55) fall of roof 14/2/1951
- William Presley (44) fall of roof 3/3/1951
- Frank Coupe (22) crushed by a crane on the surface 4/11/1952
- Eric Thompson Passey (20) fall of roof 1/5/1953
- John Leslie Bailey (16) manriding accident 22/9/1953
- John Rason (46) fall of roof 9/6/1954, died 10/7/1954
- Patrick Powell Appletree (69) head injury 21/3/1955, died 22/3/1955
- Ernest Vickers (24) fall of roof 24/5/1955
- Reg Birchall (31) fall of roof 17/3/1956
- Arthur Yeardley (47) injured his leg 26/2/1957, died 10/3/1957
- James Edmund Glover (45) fall of coal 14/6/1957
- Thomas George Davies (52) fall of roof 9/10/1957
- Albert Hickman (63) fell from a gantry on the surface 3/9/1958
- Harold Daffin (56) fall of roof 20/5/1960
- Ernest Beresford Rogers (49) fell down the shaft 8/6/1961
- Reginald Rogers (63) crushed by tubs -/5/1962, died -/6/1962
- Ernest Hooley (60) injured his foot 16/2/1962, died 19/6/1962
- Raymond Brown (53) caught in machinery 18/4/1963
- Arthur Lyndon Goodwin (74) crushed by tubs 1947, 26/6/1963
- Dennis Wood (29) caught in a coal cutter 29/8/1964
- Thomas Madden (73) fall of roof 1941, died 22/9/1966
- Stephen Bates (22) electrocuted on the surface 10/5/1969
- William Henry Neep (57) caught in machinery on the surface 4/4/1971
- Arthur Neale (54) spinal injury 1947, died -/6/1973
- Overwind Disaster 30th July, 1973 - - - Those Who Died
Charles Hubert Palmer (41) of the Area development team, fall of roof 8/2/1974. |
