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Date	Headline(s)
05 Dec 1826	News
04 Jun 1833	Dreadful Accident
02 Sep 1834	News
24 Oct 1838	Coal-Mine Explosion
27 Oct 1838	Dreadful Coal Pit Explosion Forty Lives Lost!
29 Oct 1838	Coal Pit Explosion And Loss Of 34 Lives
31 Oct 1838	Dreadful Coal Pit Explosion — Forty Lives Lost
03 Nov 1838	The Late Coal-Pit Explosion
03 Nov 1838	The Dreadful Explosion at John Pit
24 Dec 1838	News
02 Sep 1843	Melancholy Accident
01 Apr 1851	News
29 Mar 1853	News
06 Nov 1862	Fatal Accident In John Pit, Harrington
20 Nov 1862	Inquest at Harrington
23 Apr 1868	Fatal Accident To A Miner
30 Apr 1868	The Fatal Coal-Pit Accident at Harrington
11 Nov 1873	Serious Accident to a Miner
18 May 1876	Fatal Accident at Harrington
01 Jun 1876	The Late Fatal Accident at Harrington
08 Jun 1876	The Late Fatal Accident at Harrington
31 Aug 1876	Inquest at Parton
07 Sep 1876	Collier Killed at Lowca
23 Mar 1878	Accident To A Parton Collier
03 May 1878	Prosecution Under The Mines Act
23 May 1878	Ventilation In Coal Mines
19 Aug 1880	Narrow Escape From Drowning at Lowca Colliery
21 Oct 1880	Accident at Harrington New Pit
04 Aug 1881	Accident at No.7 Pit, Lowca
15 Sep 1881	Fatal Result Of An Accident Claim For Compensation
22 Sep 1881	The Fatal Mining Accident at Harrington
10 Nov 1881	Fatal Pit Accident at Lowca
17 Nov 1881	The Fatal Accidents at Lowca
17 Nov 1881	Inquest on the Fatal Accident at Lowca
19 Apr 1883	Colliery Explosion At Harrington Alleged Breach Of The Special Rules
19 May 1883	Fatal Explosion In Lowca Colliery
12 Jul 1883	The Late Fatal Pit Explosion At Harrington Prosecution By The Home Office
09 Jul 1885	The Adjourned Inquest At Whitehaven
08 Sep 1887	Fatal Accident At Lowca
15 Sep 1887	The Recent Fatal Accident At Lowca Pit Mr. A. Sharp And The Coroner
27 Oct 1887	Accident To A Whitehaven Man At Harrington
24 Nov 1887	A Miner Injured At Lowca
02 Feb 1888	Serious Accident At Lowca
27 Sep 1888	Accident At Lowca Pit
05 Dec 1889	Accident At Lowca Pit
01 Jan 1890	Accident At Lowca
12 Jun 1890	The Fatal Accident At Lowca Pit
12 Jun 1890	Fatal Accident At Lowca
24 Jul 1890	Mining Accident At Lowca
05 Feb 1891	Accident At No. 7 Pit, Harrington
22 Sep 1892	Damaging A Lamp
22 Sep 1892	Another Offence Of The Same Kind In The Harrington Colliery
13 Oct 1892	The Responsibility Of Mine Managers The Manager Of Harrington Colliery Fined For Offences Against The Mines Act
09 Mar 1893	The West Cumberland Coal Trade
28 Sep 1893	A Whitehaven Collier Meets With An Accident
26 Oct 1893	Accident At Lowca
04 Jan 1894	Accident At Parton
11 Jan 1894	Accident At Lowca
08 Mar 1894	Fatal Result Of An Accident At Lowca
01 Jun 1895	Fatal Accident at Lowca Killed by a Runaway Tub
09 Jan 1896	Accident At No.3 Pit, Harrington
30 Jul 1896	A Man's Hand Torn Off At Lowca
05 Nov 1896	Accidents At The Harrington Collieries
28 Oct 1897	Accident In Lowca Pit
10 Feb 1898	Accident At No. 7 Pit, Lowca
12 May 1898	Explosion Of Gas At Lowca Pit
15 Dec 1898	Singular Accident At Lowca Pit
27 Apr 1899	Accident at No. 9 Pit, Lowca
04 May 1899	Accident To A Boy At No. 7 Pit, Lowca
01 Feb 1900	A Sequel To A Colliery Strike At Lowca
22 Mar 1900	Shocking Accident At No. 7 Pit, Lowca
19 Apr 1900	Accident To A Lowca Collier
23 Jan 1902	Fall Of Stone At Lowca Colliery Night Shiftsman Killed
03 Apr 1902	Fall Of Stone At No. 9 Pit Lowca
05 Jun 1902	Accident At No. 9 Pit Lowca
03 Sep 1903	Pit Accident At Lowca
19 Sep 1903	The Miners' Strike at Broughton
12 Nov 1903	Sad Death Of A Parton Young Man
12 Nov 1903	Mining Fatality At Lowca
17 Nov 1904	Shocking Accident At Harrington Collieries
07 Dec 1905	Disastrous Fire At Lowca Pit
21 Dec 1905	Harrington Collieries After The Fire
31 May 1906	Accident To A Whitehaven Miner
03 Sep 1908	Colliers Charged With Contravention Of Special Rules At Lowca Miner's Jaw Broken In A Fight
17 Sep 1908	The Lowca Fatality
01 Apr 1909	Fatal Result Of An Accident At Lowca Pit
08 Apr 1909	Accident At Lowca Colliery Two Men Injured
12 May 1910	Shocking Fatality At Lowca Colliery Youth Caught In The Machinery
06 Jun 1910	Colliery Train Wrecked £2,000 Damage
12 Jan 1911	Fatal Accident At Lowca Pit
19 Jan 1911	Sad Fatal Accident At No. 9 Lowca Two Distington Young Men Killed
20 Apr 1911	Colliery Case At Whitehaven Reaping The Fruits Of Another Man's Labour
27 Apr 1911	Shocking Fatality At Harrington Colliery The Inquest, Last Night
18 May 1911	The Lowca Pit Fatality The Inquest
29 Jun 1911	The Lowca Fatality Inquest, Last Night
11 Jan 1912	Opening Of New Shaft At Lowca Important Industrial Developments
05 May 1912	Shot-Firing Fatality At No. 10 Lowca
01 Aug 1912	Accident At The Harrington Colliery
05 Sep 1912	Whitehaven Boy's Accident At Lowca Colliery
19 Jun 1913	Shocking Fatality at Lowca Error of Judgement
26 Feb 1914	Colliery Prosecution At Whitehaven
07 Jan 1915	Workington Man Killed At Lowca
14 Jan 1915	Inquest On Lowca Colliery Fatality
24 Jun 1915	Distington Lad Crushed To Death
07 Oct 1915	Belgian Miner Killed At Lowca
25 May 1916	Fatal Pit Accident At Lowca
15 Feb 1917	Fatal Gas Explosion At Lowca
28 Nov 1918	Fatality At Lowca Colliery
22 Dec 1920	Fatal Colliery Accident at Lowca
23 Dec 1920	Workington Miner Killed At Lowca Twice Wounded Ex-Soldier Crushed By Unforeseen Fall
29 Sep 1921	Fatality At Lowca
06 Oct 1921	Run Over By Loose Tubs Whitehaven Collier's Fatal Injuries At Lowca
29 Jun 1922	Whitehaven Man Killed At Lowca
19 Oct 1922	Inquest On Lowca Pit Victim Grandfather And Father Witness Tragedy Sympathy For Relatives
03 Jan 1924	Lowca Colliery Accident
31 Jan 1924	Shot Firer's Mistake Harrington Colliery Accident Sequel
09 Oct 1924	Mine Explosion
25 Dec 1924	Whitehaven Miner Injured
24 Dec 1925	Third Mining Fatality Harrington Youth Caught In Lowca Fall
31 Dec 1925	Change In Shifts In Order To Attend Weddings Harrington Youth Killed By Huge Stone
22 Apr 1926	Three Tragedies In Local Pits Falls Of Roof, And Fall Down Shaft
29 Apr 1926	Lowca Tragedy Miner Killed In Mate's Absence First Fatal Accident At No. 11 Pit
21 Jul 1927	The Price Of Coal Whitehaven Miner's Death Shocking Injuries
10 Mar 1928	News and Notes
26 Jul 1928	Lowca Fatality Miner Caught Under Stone Workmate's Rush To Rescue
11 Oct 1928	Mine Worker's Death Lived Eleven Months With Broken Spine
08 Nov 1928	Crushed By Pit Engine Harrington Youth Killed At Lowca
15 Nov 1928	Harrington Boy's Mystery Death Found Crushed Between Tubs In Lowca Pit
22 Mar 1930	Pithead Baths Views of Welfare Committee
17 May 1930	Pithead Baths
06 Nov 1930	Killed By Fall Of Stone Pit Worker Crushed While Filling Tubs At Lowca
12 Mar 1931	Pit Accident Distington Miner's Death The Inquest Story
12 Apr 1932	News
13 Apr 1932	Lowca Miner Killed Commrade's Narrow Escape in Rescue Attempt Pinned by machine at coal face
12 Oct 1934	Notes from the Coal Fields Cumberland
27 Mar 1935	Leg Amputated Fails To Save Life Sequel To Lowca Pit Accident
07 Oct 1937	Accident No One Saw Hensingham Man Fatally Hurt In Lowca Pit
08 Oct 1937	Labour and Wages North of England
03 Mar 1938	Hurt In Lowca Pit
10 Mar 1938	Whitehaven & Lowca Mining Accidents
13 May 1938	Personal Notes
03 Jun 1938	Personal Notes
02 Jul 1938	District News Pit Worker's Spine Injured
19 Jan 1939	Boys Close Lowca Pit
23 Jun 1939	Obituary
19 Oct 1939	Workington Man Killed At Lowca Colliery
18 Mar 1943	56 Years In The Mines Haig Pit Accident Victim
11 Jan 1945	Fall After Shots Lowca Pit Fatality
12 Apr 1945	Wood Rationed Pit Pilfering Must Stop
22 Aug 1946	Veteran Miner's Diamond Wedding
10 Dec 1946	Cumberland Pit Explosion Little Hope For Missing Men
02 Jan 1947	Mining Family Head Sudden Death At Whitehaven
08 Apr 1948	53 Years Underground Parton Deputy Retires
07 Oct 1948	Fall Of Stone Miner Fatally Hurt
03 Nov 1949	Pit Fatality Inquest Verdict
22 Nov 1951	Fatally Hurt In Lowca Pit
13 Dec 1951	Lowca Pit Fatality Verdict
20 Dec 1951	Pit Trainee Should Not Have Been At Coal Face
20 Mar 1952	Micklam Pit Accident
29 Oct 1953	Gas Explosion Two Slightly Hurt In Lowca Pit
05 Nov 1953	Boy Killed: Fell Down Lowca Pit Shaft
19 Nov 1953	Fell Down Shaft Inquest On Pit Boy
26 May 1955	Roof Fall Lowca Pit Fatality
03 Nov 1955	Parton Man Killed In Lowca Pit Accident
24 Apr 1958	Miner Killed By Fall Of Roof
17 Aug 1958	Fatally Hurt In Mine Whitehaven Inquest
22 Jan 1959	£2,375 Damages For Miner Hurt At Lowca

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