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Kelton (Iron Ore)
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| Location: | Lamplugh |
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| Closed: | Jun 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owners: | 1890's - Wm. Baird & Co. Ltd. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Output: | 1888 - Iron Ore. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1890 - Iron Ore. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1902 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1914 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Kelton (Iron Ore) |
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| Notes: | 1914 - Abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
Cross, Francis, 31 Dec 1886, aged 16, Hooker On, fall of stone from roof ; while engaged coupling two bogeys together, a stone fell from the roof and struck him on the head, inflicting injuries from which he died in half and hour | ||||||
Jackson, George Walker, 03 Mar 1905, aged 22, Miner, A nearly vertical vein of ore 18 inches wide in slate rock was being worked, and in order to make a roadway 18 inches of the country rock was removed on the left or hanging cheek in which a hole had been drilled and was charged and nearly stemmed when a mass of stone which it was intended to shoot down between the drill hole and the hanging cheek, measuring 5 feet by 1½ feet by 1½ feet, fell away without any warning from a concealed parting at the top and a visible parting at the side, and caught deceased. The place had been visited by an official during the shift and he thought it was safe | ||||||
Lancaster, William, 05 Mar 1899, (accident: 21 Feb 1899), aged 45, Miner, This accident occurred in a soft ore working about five feet high. The place was apparently well timbered but a sudden weightening or settling displaced some of the wood, and Lancaster was caught by a falling head tree. Injuries considered slight at first, but he died on the 5th March [Inspection made & inquest attended] | ||||||
 | Molloy, Mick, 22 Apr 1881, aged 52, Miner, killed by a fall of roof | |||||
Parsley, William, 13 Nov 1899, aged 15, Locomotive Fire Boy, The youth incautiously leaned out of the brake van, and his head came in contact with a hurry or shoot, erected in the pit siding [Inspection made & inquest attended] | ||||||
Stevenson, Thomas, 20 Jun 1887, aged 18, Trailer, bogey running amain on incline striking deceased | ||||||
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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.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
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next to the name to see the web page.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1886 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5090)
- 1887 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5450)
- 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
- 1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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
- 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910)
- 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
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