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  Vane's Hartley Colliery  Index  Vane's Hartley Colliery  

Vane's Hartley Colliery


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Cockfield
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:   Shaft details for Vane's Hartley Colliery
Owners: 1860's - R. Summerson & Co.
1924 - North End Colliery Co. (Cockfield) Ltd., per W. Morrell
1920's - Watson Morrell
Output: 1873 - Coal.
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Vane's Hartley Colliery
Notes:

1885 - Busty and Brockwell seam abandoned

1929, 08 Aug - Five Quarter seam abandoned



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

      

Alderson, Jonas, 01 Jan 1873, (accident: 13 Dec 1872), aged 10, Greaser, crushed by tubs

      

Dixon, John, 22 Dec 1882, aged 34, Hewer, fall of coal while holing a jud

      

Parkin, Joseph, 12 Feb 1871, aged 15, Driver, drawn up pulley, fell out of cage and down shaft

 
  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.


  Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C 456)
  • 1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C 1056)
  • 1873-4 List of Mines
  • 1880 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621)
  • 1884 List of Mines

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Related Links:

External sites
 Gaunless Valley History Trust

Further Research:

  Research Notes for Vane's Hartley Colliery


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