Huntcliffe (Ironstone)	Index	Huntcliffe (Ironstone)

Location:	Saltburn 14 miles [22 km] E of Middlesbrough
Map Ref:	(Sheet 94, OL26) NZ697215
Opened:
Closed:	22 Sep 1906
Owners:	1890's - Bell Brothers Ltd.
Output:	1873 - Ironstone.
	1882 - Ironstone.
	1884 - Ironstone.
	1888 - Ironstone.
	1890 - Ironstone.
	1896 - Ironstone.
	1902 - Ironstone.
Employment:	1896 - 109 (88 below, 21 surface)
	1902 - 108 (70 below, 38 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Huntcliffe (Ironstone)
Notes:	1906 - Mineral exhausted

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)

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!

						Beaglehole, William, 01 Feb 1883, aged 28, Miner, fall of a piece of ironstone which he was trying to get down after a shot, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 04 Feb 1883 {NBI}
						Bousfield, Paul, 07 Dec 1879, (accident: 19 Nov 1879), aged 15, Driver, fell before a set of tubs while coming down a bank and was run over, Buried: All Saints Church, Easington on 10 Dec 1879 {NBI}
						Bugby, Joseph, 25 Jul 1873, aged 35, Miner, fall of dogger or roof, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 27 Jul 1873 {NBI}
						Guest, John, 04 Sep 1879, aged 35, Miner, fall of roof in main way - he had just left his working place and was making outbye when the fall caught him, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 07 Sep 1879 {NBI}
						Heslop, John Robert, 28 Oct 1880, aged 20, Engineman, while cleaning an engine he fell and his leg got entangled between the crank and bed plate, Buried: St. Germain & St. Mark Churchyard, Marske on 01 Nov 1880 {NBI}
						Hooper, Philip, 05 Feb 1875, aged 32, Miner, killed by a fall of roof, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 08 Feb 1875 {NBI}
						Johns, John Wallace, 20 Dec 1883, aged 22, Miner, while drilling a bottom hole a piece of dogger fell from top, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 23 Dec 1883 {NBI}
						Lobley, Thomas, 23 Feb 1882, aged 17, Driver, horse lifted him off his feet, then he fell and was run over by tubs, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 26 Feb 1882 {NBI}
						Pearce, John William, 12 Feb 1890, aged 34, Miner, a shot had knocked a prop out, and whilst attempting to reset it a heavy fall of stone took place, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 16 Feb 1890 {NBI}
						Stanley, Horace, 19 Aug 1878, aged 14, Driver, he lost his light and fell before a set of tubs and was run over, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Aug 1878 {NBI}
						Taylor, James, 19 Apr 1875, aged 39, Overman, crushed by cage, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Apr 1875 {NBI}
						Tretheway, Richard, 19 Jun 1877, (accident: 29 May 1877), aged 19, Miner, foot severely crushed by a fall of ironstone after a shot - he did not sprag overhanging piece of stone, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Jun 1877 {NBI}
						Yandale, Simon, 22 Oct 1889, Deputy, died from natural causes while engaged in laying some plates with some other men
						13 names found

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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
• Cleveland Ironstone Mines and Iron Industry by Richard Mead, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Ironstone 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