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  Stainton (Devonshire) Quarry  Index  Stainton (Devonshire) Quarry  

Stainton (Devonshire) Quarry


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Barrow
33 miles [53 km] SSE of Whitehaven
Map Ref: SD245730, 54° 8' 50" N, 3° 9' 22" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners: 1980's - Tilcon
Output: 1984 - Limestone.


  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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!

      

Braithwaite, Joseph, 26 Apr 1906, aged 42, Quarryman [More information ...]

      

Shaw, Joseph, 01 Jul 1899, aged 60, Quarryman, He was boring a pop hole in a loose block of limestone, when another loose stone which was resting on the first mentioned block canted over. The man fell in trying to get out of the way and the stone rolled on to his head [Inspection made & inquest attended]

      

White, Charles, 12 May 1911, aged 66, Quarryman, he was run over by the locomotive as he was clearing the tramway

 
  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.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Stainton (Devonshire) Quarry

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Stainton (Devonshire) Quarry


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 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.
  • 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines, copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 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.
  • 1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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On this site
 Article from Mine & Quarry Engineering (August 1960) — "Stainton Quarry — Part 1"
 Article from Mine & Quarry Engineering (September 1960) — "Stainton Quarry — Part 2"

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