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  Pennington (Iron Ore)  Index  Pennington (Iron Ore)  

Pennington (Iron Ore)


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Location: Pennington
31½ miles [50 km] SSE of Whitehaven
Map Ref: SD251764, 54° 10' 41" N, 3° 8' 51" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners: 1890's - Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Ltd.
1910's - Harrison, Ainsle & Co. Ltd.
Output: 1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
1914 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
Employment: 1896 - 0 [inc. in Whitriggs]
1914 - 421 (279 below, 142 surface)
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Pennington (Iron Ore)
Notes:

1920 - 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!

      

Ronson, Henry, 27 Sep 1911, aged 40, Miner, owing to a misapprehension of signals the bucket was lowered instead of raised, with the result that the loaded bucket knocked an empty bucket off the tram and down the shaft

 
  1 name 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.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Pennington (Iron Ore)

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Pennington (Iron Ore)


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
  • 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, 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.

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