Rising Sun Colliery

Akenhead, Robert, 25 Sep 1929, explosion of firedamp [More information ...]

Alderson, David W. M., 1939, [approximate date]

Anthony, William, 1924, [approximate date]

Arnold, Robert William, 02 May 1914, (accident: 01 May 1914), aged 14, Pony Driver, the shift had finished and deceased with another boy were bringing their ponies out; deceased was holding a trap door open when the ponies started kicking each other; deceased was kicked in the stomach, but he walked to the shaft and told the overman he was not seriously hurt; he however, died from peritonitis the following day

Bamburgh, John, 1960, he was killed when a machine was accidentally switched on by another miner working in the colliery [exact date unknown]

Bell, George, 1941, [approximate date]

Bowhill, Henry Lamb, 14 Feb 1914, aged 17, Shaft Lad, Deceased was engaged as a shaft lad at the bottom of a staple pit. He had charged a cage and shouted away, and then evidently tried to walk across the shaft bottom. He was killed instantly by the other descending cage.

Cole, Armstrong, 1941, [approximate date]

Cruddas, Thomas, 1930, [approximate date]

Davies, Edward, 20 Oct 1928, (accident: Oct 1928), aged 44, died from acute pneumonia and meningitis following a fall of stone, address: 78 Charlotte Street, Wallsend [More information ...]

Davis, William Andrew, 1924, [approximate date]

Duffy, Michael, 1940, [approximate date]

Elliott, J. W., 1937, [approximate date]

Faddon, John, 1950, died after being burnt in an accident [exact date unknown]

Fatkin, George, 1969, [approximate date]

Forster, Frederick Walter, 24 May 1928, died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall of stone

Frazer, Albert, 1943, [approximate date]

Gobin, Philip, 1942, [approximate date]

Grafton, Thomas, 1937, [approximate date]

Grieves, Ernest Victor, 12 Nov 1913, aged 17, Screen Boy, deceased had put an empty timber tram into a hoist on the surface, and after he had shouted "Hi away" (according to evidence) he was caught by the cage on its descent and fatally crushed between the end of the cage and the decking

Healey, Patrick, 1942, [approximate date]

Heslop, William, 1928, [approximate date]

Lee, John George, 1937, [approximate date]

Lightley, Thomas, 1918, [approximate date]

Lowery, William, 1922, [approximate date]

Lucas, Albert, 03 Jun 1914, (accident: 02 Jun 1914), aged 27, Hewer, Deceased was kirving at the face of a 9-foot wall, when a fall of stone occurred from a pot hole in the roof. He was injured internally and died the next day. The last set of gears was just 6 feet from the face — the maximum timbering distance. There was room for another set of gears, and there was no reason why such should not have been set. It might have prevented the accident.

Oakley, Joseph, 1940, [approximate date]

O'Brien, John, 03 Nov 1931, aged 52, burned by an explosion of firedamp, died subsequently, address: Renwick-street, Byker [More information ...]

Patterson, Stanley, 1930, [approximate date]

Poole, William, 1936, [approximate date]

Pringle, Robert John, 1932, [approximate date]

Reeves, Robert, 25 Sep 1929, explosion of firedamp [More information ...]

Richardson, William M., 1943, [approximate date]

Riseboro, Herbert, 1922, [approximate date]

Scott, John Parkin, 1930, [approximate date]

Smith, Robert, 1940, [approximate date]

Sugden, Alfred Edward, 1924, [approximate date]

Tate, Isaac, 1943, [approximate date]

Taylor, George R. C., 1936, [approximate date]

Varty, Joseph, Jan 1948

Walker, William, 1938, [approximate date]

Walton, John Robert, 03 Nov 1931, aged 36, burned by an explosion of firedamp, died subsequently, address: Balmoral-street, Wallsend [More information ...]

Watson, Albert, 1941, [approximate date]

Watson, John, 1942, [approximate date]

West, Andrew Taylor, 1935, [approximate date]