Carlin How (Ironstone)

Location:

Loftus
14½ miles [24 km] E of Middlesbrough

Map Ref:

(Sheet 94, OL26, OL27) NZ710192

Opened:

Closed:

Owners:

1910's - Bell Brothers Ltd.

1923, Apr - Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd.

Output:

1873 - Ironstone.

1882 - Ironstone.

1884 - Ironstone.

1888 - Ironstone.

1890 - Ironstone.

1896 - Ironstone.

1902 - Ironstone.

1914 - Ironstone.

1921 - Ironstone.

1923 - Ironstone.

1924 - Ironstone.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1896	146	116	30
1902	209	194	15
1914	259	234	25
1921	218	190	28
1924	334	248	86

Colliery Management (prior to 1955)

Notes:

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Carlin How (Ironstone)

Description

The Cliff Mines were commenced by Bell Bros., Ltd., in 1860. The output for 1880 was 58,332 tons, but the ironstone here is now worked out. The same firm opened the Huntcliffe Mine adjacent, in 1871. It is worked by an adit drift, and the stone is won by hand mining; 100 hands are employed. Carlin How Mines, opened out by Bell Bros. in 1873, are within Mr. Wharton's royalty. The weekly output is about 3,000 tons, obtained wholly by hand mining. The number of hands employed is 150. Lumpsey Mines were commenced in 1882. The shafts are about 100 fathoms deep. Drilling machines, worked by hydraulic power, are used in winning part of the stone. About 3,000 tons per week are obtained, employing 140 men and boys.

Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890)

Lumpsey Mine consists of two pits namely, Lumpsey and Carlin How, the shafts being two miles apart. All stone is wound at the Lumpsey Shaft which has a depth of 570 feet. The Carlin How shafts now serve for winding men and material and for pumping. The Lumpsey mine winder is electrically driven by a 710-h.p. 2,750-volt slip-ring motor with Weir-type liquid controller, by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited. The drum is bi-cylindro-conical, 15 ft. and 10 ft. dia., the winding time being 25 secs. The equipment includes a "Whitmore" gear with King's slow banker. The headgear is 76 ft. high, and is of the steel joist and channel construction. Keps of the "Beien" type are fitted.

The fan is a Waddle single inlet, 144 in. dia., driven through a Hendry laminated belt by a 70/9 b.h.p. two-speed squirrel-cage pole-changing motor with autotransformer starting.

Iron & Coal Trades Review 1937

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Bennison, Henry, 17 Aug 1940, aged 47, Deputy, fracture of the skull accidentally sustained as a result of a fall of stone, address: Hazelwood House, Jubilee Terrace, Staithes, Whitby [Inquest: 19 Aug 1940 & 23 Aug 1940], Buried: Hinderwell
						Blaylock, Septimus, 02 Feb 1902
						Blenkey, John, 19 Oct 1914, (accident: 16 Oct 1914), aged 62, Back-bye Trimmer, A split wall having holed into an old bord, the crossing had to be secured so that the next pillar could be split. The seam was 8 feet 6 inches thick, and the shale, about 4 feet thick, had fallen to a hard parting in the old bord. The side of the pillar was crushed, and some of the stone had to be dressed off. Deceased then commenced to cut a hole for a crossing balk, and while so engaged standing on the fallen shale, a large piece of shale fell away from close to the 4-foot parting on to his left leg, shattering it. He died from shock 3 days later.
						Hall, John, 29 Nov 1886, aged 57
						Hill, Isaac, 01 Feb 1898, (accident: 29 Jan 1898), aged 30, Miner, when charging a hole with powder he was pushing the third pellet with a brass stemmer, when the charge exploded, and this ignited the powder in his box, and he was so severely burnt about his face, chest, and arms, that he died on February 1st; he should have been using a wooden stemmer [More information ...]
						Robson, Robert, 31 Aug 1883, (accident: 07 Aug 1883), aged 27, Miner, so severely injured by an explosion of powder, while engaged, contrary to all rules, in drilling out a shot which had missed fire, that he died a fortnight after
						Rowe, Henry, 10 Jan 1897, (accident: 10 Nov 1896), aged 30, Miner, Leg broken by a fall of stone. He was wedging the stone at the time and it fell before he could get out of the way. Died January 10th, 1897, after the leg had been amputated
						Thursday, James, 02 May 1916, aged 41
						Whiley, Frederick, 29 Dec 1908, (accident: 22 Jun 1908), aged 14, Trapper, he was walking outbye behind a horse when it struck out kicking him on the head, fracturing his skull; he died on 29th December

						9 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Carlin How (Ironstone)

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

Credits

Sources:

1873-4 List of Mines
1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078)
1884 List of Mines
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672)
1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire, published in 1890
Contributions by members of the Public
Profile of Dorman, Long ∓ Co. Ltd. printed in The Iron & Coal Trades Review in 1937

Further Research:

Research Notes for Carlin How (Ironstone)



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