Clifton Hall Colliery Disaster 1885

[foggyjano]

I have reason to think that my gt gt gt grandfather William Thomas died in an explosion at Clifton Hall Colliery in 1885, Pendlebury.  Does anyone have a copy of the list of men who died in this explosion?

I have searched Google but cannot actually find a list of the men who died,

thanks

[Singum]

Foggyjano,

Just had a quick look at your query and can inform you of the following;

1885 June 18 Clifton Hall Colliery Explosion, 176 died
Also you may want to contact;

How to Contact coal mining in East Lancashire

20 Willow Street
Burnley
BB12 ORE

Phone: 01282-454927

and you may also wish to look at http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/sei/s/1397/f25.pdf

If I come across any other information I'll let you know

Regards

Nigel

[foggyjano]

Thanks for the reply Nigel... June 1885, that fits when William Thomas died...he was a miner, pity there isnt a list on the internet... I believe there is a list of 64 of the miners at St Augstines Church. Pendlebury

The information you show, just shows how dangerous they knew working by candle light was and they still allowed it, I will look forward to reading it in more detail, I just skipped through it when i clicked on the link!

Thanks for replying.

Foggyjano

[midmum]

Hi There,

Listed in Pauline Sauls book "The Family Historians Enquire Within" (5th Edition) is the address of a man who is collating an index of persons killed in mining accidents1850 -1920 on receipt of an SAe he will send details. From previous experience information given out was very good.
 Will put his details here as I assume that is okay because he had them published but if not pm me and i will get them to you.
Mr Ian Wistanley
83 Greenfields Crescent
Ashton in Makerfield
Wigan
WN4 8QY

Will also ask my friend to look at the memorial to them at St Augustines as it is her local church.

Heather

[foggyjano]

Thank you Heather for the details, If I am over this chest infection I might have a ride over to the church at weekend see if i can find anything out too, There is lots of info on the  net about the church but they all  mention the memorial but not the names on the monument.  If I do go I will write the names down and put them on the site, so at least others in the future will have access to the names.

I can then write to the gentlemen you have recommended if Williams details are not on the monument or actully he may be buried in the church.. that has just occured to me!!

[skb]

This is the website for Ian Winstanley's Coal Mining History

http://cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

[foggyjano]

Thank you for the link!.... I now think William was injured and not outright killed on the day, as he didnt die until July, aug, sept quarter but i still think it might be something to do with the explosion as he was only 49 when he died, which is young

[mine-adict]

I have reason to think that my gt gt gt grandfather William Thomas died in an explosion at Clifton Hall Colliery in 1885, Pendlebury.  Does anyone have a copy of the list of men who died in this explosion?

I have searched Google but cannot actually find a list of the men who died,

thanks

I have just found this post from several years ago there is a list of all the names of the men and boys killed at clifton hall but two names are missing  i have also checked the mining data base and i can't find a william thomas for clifton hall this does not mean that he did not die there  with a list of over 200,000 names it is more than likely many are missing we are talking of an era when life was very cheap
hope this helps you if you haven't already found what you were looking for

Andy

http://www.dmm2.org.uk/uknames/u1885-04.htm


if this does not work the website is durham mining museum

[jangeo]

A good rescource site for mining accidents is: Coal Mining History Rescource Centre, I have it saved as a link but I have not got a NVQ on how to show it here. If you just type in the name it should show up.

It does list the mining accident you asked about plus a list a names.


Geoff W