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  Langbaurgh (Whinstone)  Index  Langbaurgh (Whinstone)  

Langbaurgh (Whinstone)


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Great Ayton
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners: 1880's - M. Bradley
1890's - Bradley Brothers
1910's - Gribdale Mining Co. Ltd.
1920's - George Bradley
1930's - Bradley Bros.
Output: 1882 - Whinstone.
1884 - Whinstone.
1888 - Whinstone.
1890 - Whinstone.
1896 - Whinstone.
1902 - Whinstone.
1914 - Whinstone.
1921 - Whinstone.
1930 - Igneous rock.
1945 - Igneous rock.
1950 - Igneous rock.
Employment: 1896 - 24 (20 below, 4 surface)
1902 - 14 (9 below, 5 surface)
1914 - 38 (16 below, 22 surface) [Lanbaurgh & Nunthorpe]
1930 - 11 (7 below, 4 surface)
1945 - 21 (7 below, 14 surface)
1950 - 15 (8 below, 7 surface)
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)


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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!

      

Davison, Frederick, 06 Jun 1903, aged 31, Miner, a piece of Whinstone fell from the roof, about 15 ft. above, and killed him

      

Storrow, Isaac, 25 Dec 1892, (accident: 17 Nov 1892, 10:15 a.m., 5th hour of shift), aged 53, Miner, while sitting in the engine-house some teeth of a spur wheel broke, striking him on the head; he resumed work in about a fortnight, and died from compression of the brain on the 25th December [More information ...]

      

Wilson, William, 17 Dec 1881, aged 56, Miner, fall of stone while baring it off the bench

 
  3 names 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.

  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
  • 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.
  • 1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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
  • 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

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