Disasters - Names		Disasters - Names

Date:	30th May 1826
Colliery:	Towneley Main
Cause:	Explosion
Lives Lost:	38

An explosion took place in Townley Main, (Stella) colliery on the river Tyne, by which lamentable occurrence thirty eight human beings lost their lives.

Source:

Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.

Photograph(s) of the memorial for this disaster are shown in the Memorials section

	Brown, Thomas, aged 60, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Clayton, Thomas, aged 13, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Coulson, Brian, aged 18, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Dowsey, John, aged 12, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Dowsey, Leonard, aged 38, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Dowsey, Rodney, aged 28, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Errington, John, aged 24, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Forster, John, aged 18, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Gray, John, aged 23, blown up shaft, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Hall, John, aged 10, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Howden, Joseph, aged 16, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Howden, Thomas, aged 18, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Liddle, Thomas, aged 40, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Liddle, William, aged 38, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Newton, Matthew, aged 41, died of injuries, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Parkin, John, aged 48, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Philipson, Brian, aged 24, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, James, aged 15, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, John, aged 21, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, John, aged 20, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Robert, aged 17, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Thomas, aged 15, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Thomas, aged 25, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Thomas, aged 17, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Thomas, aged 39, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, Thomas, aged 43, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, William, aged 29, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Robson, William, aged 11, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Scott, William, aged 19, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Stoker, Matthew, aged 15, blown up shaft, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Stoker, Thomas, aged 48, blown up shaft, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Taylor, Isaac, aged 46, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Taylor, William, aged 36, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Turnbull, Cuthbert, aged 12, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Waugh, Thomas, aged 10, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Wheatley, Joseph, aged 19, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Wheatley, Michael, aged 59, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	Wheatley, Thomas, aged 21, Buried: Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton
	All names found
	Youngest: 10 years old ; Oldest: 60 ; Average: 26
	Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

 

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