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As I understand it Summersales Colliery came into being from Pemberton Colliery. Accidents. There was re-working of colliery waste on part of the site, but most of it was derelict when I visited. Maypole mayhem. Many coal mining disasters of the early 20th century were covered by the photographer Warner Gothard of Barnsley. Little did we know when we woke that morning.
It was the start of the day shift and by 6.20am 105 miners had already been lowered into the pit. The sorrow the day would bring; The call was so sudden, the shock severe. It also recalls the great bravery of other miners, often from other pits in the recue attempts, who with no thought of their own safety went below ground to try and their fellow comrades.
It replaced stations at Howe Bridge, Denton, St Helens and Burnley.
Get this from a library! In 1880, the Mines Inspector reported 534 coal pits in the Lancashire field.
To part with one we loved so dear. 2 and No.
It was an unprecedented mining tragedy for the area. Pemberton Five, same arrangement as Pemberton Four. They also trained teams of men in pits throughout the coalfield. Seventy six men were killed in Wigan's biggest mining disaster. Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local mining communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830's through to 1910. 2 and No.
Haydock Colliery explosion 1878. Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910.. [J Nadin] -- Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local ming communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830's through to 1910. It also recalls the great bravery of other miners, often from other pits in the recue attempts, who with no thought of their own safety went below ground to try and their fellow comrades.
GEE-PEMBERTON – In loving memory of a dear husband and daddy, COLIN GEE-PEMBERTON, Barlboro’ who lost his life in the Markham Disaster, 10th May 1938. 10 October 1932: a mine-shaft elevator fell.
Not least was the sulphurous contribution made by the colliery waste tips – the “pit rucks” – which had a habit of catching fire due to spontaneous combustion. The image that follows dates, I understand, from 1860 & may have been a page from an early book.
This was driven by a man called Bill Foster and when I was there it was always called Fosters tunnel. September 1847: a collier and his drawer were descending the Bolton House pit when they were engulfed in flames. From 1906 approximately 250 ponies worked underground over a period of some 25 years. Honkeiko colliery mining disaster, deadly explosion that occurred on April 26, 1942, in a coal mine at Benxi, Liaoning province, China. The disaster took place on 12 December 1866 at the Oaks Colliery, near Stairfoot, Barnsley, in South Yorkshire.
This was driven by a man called Bill Foster and when I was there it was always called Fosters tunnel.