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  Ailesbury (Ironstone)  Index  Ailesbury (Ironstone)  

Ailesbury (Ironstone)

also known as Swainby (Ironstone)


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Stokesley
12 miles [19 km] S of Middlesbrough
Map Ref: (Sheet 93, OL26) NZ479006, 54° 23' 54" N, 1° 15' 44" W
Opened: 1857
Closed: 1887
Owners: 1870's - North of England Industrial Iron & Coal Co. Ltd.
1880's - Carlton Iron Co. Ltd.
Output: 1873 - Ironstone.
1882 - Ironstone.
1884 - Ironstone.


  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

      

Rickerby, Richard, 04 Sep 1885, (accident: 25 Aug 1885), aged 31, Miner, broken leg by a fall of stone while barring it down

 
  1 name found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Ailesbury (Ironstone)

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Ailesbury (Ironstone)


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1873-4 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1884 List of Mines
  • 1885 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4760)

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Related Links:

On this site
 Article on the discovery of Ironstone in Cleveland (published in 1857)
External sites
 Cleveland Ironstone Mines web site by Peter Tuffs

Further Reading:

  • The Cleveland Ironstone Industry and its Impact on Teesside by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
  • The Ironstone Mines and Railways of Cleveland and Rosedale by T.E. Rounthwaite, published by Peter Tuffs
  • Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines by Peter Tuffs, Cleveland Ironstone Series, published by Peter Tuffs
  • Cleveland Mining Incidents by Simon Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
  • Cleveland Ironstone by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
  • Cleveland Ironstone Mines and Iron Industry by Richard Mead, published by Peter Tuffs

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