Bewicke Main Colliery

1867 - Bewicke Main Colliery upcast shaft sunk from the surface to the Hutton Seam, February.

1931, 26 Jan - Six Quarter seam abandoned

1932, 06 May - Low Main, Hutton seams abandoned

Barker, J., 19 Dec 1866, aged 10

Cawson, Armstrong, 15 Aug 1906, aged 15, Token Boy, crushed by tubs [More information ...]

Grundy, John, 15 Nov 1880, aged 21, Hewer, crushed by tubs on inclined plane

Irwin, George, 29 Dec 1869, aged 36, Weighman, explosion of a boiler [More information ...]

Kirk, William, 06 Aug 1904, aged 52, Hewer, Deceased worked alone as a hewer, and he was found by the deputy sitting on his cracket murmuring incoherently. The deputy went for assistance, and when he returned deceased had fallen over and cut his head slightly, He was taken to the surface, but died in a few hours. An inquest was held after a post-mortem examination, when medical evidence showed that death was caused by cerebral haemorrhage due to Bright's disease. The Local Inspectors examined the place and reported "found the timber and the place satisfactory."

Lumley, Robert, 19 Aug 1902, aged 26, Hewer, at face in Low Main seam ; there was a slip and the stone had canted a prop ; when examined four hours before by the deputy the place appeared safe

MacDonald, James, 11 Mar 1880, aged 13, Driver, crushed by tubs on rolleyway

Makepeace, John, 16 Jun 1885, aged 36, Keeker, uncoupling waggons whilst being drawn out from under screens

Makepeace, John, 05 May 1897, aged 53, Hewer, A large stone fell on him from three distinct slips in the shape of a triangle. The deputy was in fifteen minutes before and examined the place carefully, leaving it in what he considered in safe working condition [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Mather, Robert, 06 Apr 1903, (accident: 03 Mar 1903), aged 30, Hewer, Deceased when hewing in the Hutton seam on March 3, which is overlaid by ramble, a soft stone that often falls even where the timber is very close; a piece of this stone is supposed to have fallen and cut his knee. He did not report any accident on that day, but next day his wife informed the deputy that her husband "had got a bat on the knee by a small piece of stone." Blood poisoning supervened followed by septic pneumonia and septic meningitis which caused his death. The jury found he had died from pneumonia derived from injuries received in the pit.

Miller, Sam, 16 Nov 1927, aged 14, Driver, crushed by tubs [More information ...]

Ranson, George, 29 Dec 1869, aged 18, Engineman, explosion of a boiler [More information ...]

Saynor, George, 18 Mar 1897, aged 15, Driver, He was probably trying to get on a full set of tubs, and had fallen under the front tub. There was no evidence to show how it happened [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Walker, David, 13 Mar 1913, aged 38, Deputy, deceased was drawing a jud which was coming on to weight badly when the roof canted out some pairs of gears behind him and he was buried and killed by the fall; he should not have attempted to draw the timber when it was getting dangerous

Walker, Stephen, 02 Jul 1898, aged 61, Shifter, The deceased was engaged in cleaning a water-level, and in doing so had evidently undermined a prop which was supporting a balk, the result being that a stone fell away at a "slip" in the roof [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Walton, John, 26 May 1919, killed by a fall of stone