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Date	Headline(s)
15 Jan 1805	News
26 Mar 1805	News
05 Nov 1805	Coal Works
19 Nov 1805	Coal Mines
01 Apr 1806	William Pit
13 Mar 1810	Whitehaven Coal Works, &c. William Pit
24 Dec 1810	News
02 Aug 1819	News
02 Aug 1819	News
06 Sep 1819	News
03 Jan 1820	News
05 Jan 1820	News
11 Jan 1820	Tunnel Drift
16 Apr 1821	Dreadful Accident
16 Apr 1821	News
21 Apr 1821	News
20 Oct 1823	Distressing event
21 Oct 1823	Dreadful Occurrence (Further particulars - from the Carlisle Journal)
27 Oct 1823	Charity
03 Jan 1826	News
03 Jan 1826	Whitehaven
03 Apr 1826	News
03 Apr 1827	News
25 Mar 1828	Colliery Explosion
17 Mar 1829	News
08 Sep 1829	News
08 Feb 1830	News
12 Feb 1833	News
13 Aug 1833	Accident
10 Sep 1833	News
05 Nov 1833	Accident
31 Dec 1833	News
31 Dec 1833	News
18 Mar 1834	News
30 Sep 1834	News
10 Feb 1835	News
28 Dec 1835	News
29 Dec 1835	News
11 Apr 1837	News
19 Aug 1837	News
25 Nov 1837	Pit Accident
11 Dec 1838	News
02 Feb 1839	Explosion of fire-damp Twenty-three lives lost
18 Feb 1839	Fire Blast Cumberland Mining District
19 Feb 1839	Explosion Of Fire Damp In William Pit Twenty-Three Lives Lost
22 Feb 1839	Explosion of Fire-damp – Twenty-Three Lives Lost (Abridged from the Cumberland Packet of Tuesday.)
23 Feb 1839	Another Dreadful Explosion Of Fire Damp Twenty-Three Persons Killed
23 Feb 1839	Dreadful Explosion Of Fire-Damp, In William Pit, Whitehaven Twenty-Three Lives Lost
26 Feb 1839	Coroner's Inquest On The Suffers At William Pit
08 Jun 1839	Fatal Accident
19 Oct 1839	Pit Accident
19 Oct 1839	News
07 Mar 1840	Pit Accident And Pitman's Funeral
07 Mar 1840	Another Accident In William Pit
14 Mar 1840	News
21 Mar 1840	News
19 Sep 1840	News
08 May 1841	Fatal Accident
15 May 1841	Fatal Pit Accident
29 May 1841	Pit Accident
13 Nov 1841	Description Of William Pit
16 Apr 1842	Disturbance Amongst The Colliers
24 Sep 1842	Pit Accident
01 Oct 1842	Inquest
11 May 1844	Pit Accident
18 May 1844	William Pit
11 Oct 1845	Inquest
11 Nov 1845	News
15 Nov 1845	Inquest
15 Nov 1845	Coal Pit Accident
11 Jul 1846	Inquest
14 Jul 1846	News
18 Jul 1846	Inquest In West Cumberland
02 Jun 1847	News
02 Nov 1847	News
11 Apr 1848	News
23 Sep 1848	Coroner's Inquest
26 Sep 1848	News
07 Oct 1848	Coroner's Inquest
04 Nov 1848	Awful Explosion At Whinney Hill Colliery Loss Of Thirty-One Lives
23 Jan 1849	News
10 Jul 1849	Another Fatal Accident
28 Aug 1849	News
19 Mar 1850	News
23 Mar 1850	News
31 Jul 1852	Fatal Pit Accident
03 Aug 1852	Inquest
01 Mar 1853	News
08 Mar 1853	News
22 Nov 1853	News
12 Aug 1854	Pit Accident
26 Sep 1854	News
10 Apr 1855	Colliery Accident
30 Jun 1855	Accident In William Pit, Whitehaven
29 Jan 1857	Alleged Case Of Abuse
03 Feb 1859	A Collier Robbing His Fellow-Workmen
10 Jan 1861	Fatal Accident In William Pit, Whitehaven
17 Jan 1861	Fatal Accident In William Pit, Whitehaven Adjourned Inquest
13 Jun 1861	Fatal Accident at Whitehaven
19 Sep 1861	Another Offence Against the Colliery Rules
10 Oct 1861	Fatal Accident In William Pit, Whitehaven
12 Dec 1861	Inhuman Conduct Of Two Boys
17 Apr 1862	Violation Of Colliery Rules
01 Jan 1863	Cutting and Wounding at William Pit
08 Jan 1863	Cutting and Wounding at William Pit, Whitehaven
26 Feb 1863	Breach Of Colliery Rules
18 Aug 1864	Accident In William Pit
15 Dec 1864	A Man Killed at William Pit, Whitehaven
22 Dec 1864	A Man Killed In William Pit, Whitehaven.
21 Feb 1865	Smoking In Coal Pits
24 Aug 1867	Smoking In William Pit
12 Sep 1867	The Fatal Colliery Accident at William Pit
14 Sep 1867	Contravening the Rules Of the Whitehaven Colliery Serious Charges Against Miners
05 Dec 1867	Fatal Colliery Accident
13 Mar 1869	A Caution To Miners
01 Sep 1870	Shocking Cruelty To A Horse In William Pit
27 Oct 1870	Fatal Accident In William Pit
03 Nov 1870	The Fatal Accident In William Pit
05 Jan 1871	Shocking Cruelty To A Horse In William Pit
16 Mar 1871	Assault In A Coal Mine
23 Mar 1871	Illegal Possession Of Tobacco Pipes In A Coal Mine
03 Aug 1871	Shocking Cruelty To A Horse In William Pit
24 Aug 1871	Another Shocking Act Of Cruelty To A Pit Horse
14 Sep 1871	Another Case Of Wanton Cruelty In the Colliery
06 Jun 1872	The Whitehaven Collieries
29 Aug 1872	Dangerous Infringement Of the Rules Of A Colliery
19 Sep 1872	Playing at A Circus In A Coal Mine
28 Nov 1872	The Whitehaven Collieries Further Improvements
27 Mar 1873	Experiments In Whitehaven Collieries
22 May 1873	Shocking Cruelty To A Pit Horse
19 Jun 1873	Having Tobacco Pipes In A Coalmine
09 Apr 1874	Offence Against Colliery Regulations
18 Jun 1874	Fatal Accident In William Pit
20 Jun 1874	Strike Of Whitehaven Colliery Lads Prosecutions Under The Criminal Law Amendment Act
20 Jun 1874	Strike Of Whitehaven Colliery Lads Prosecutions Under The Criminal Law Amendment Act Assault At William Pit
15 Oct 1874	Fatal Accident In William Pit
22 Oct 1874	Mining Accident at Whitehaven
18 Mar 1875	Man Killed at William Pit
08 Jul 1875	Fatal Accident at William Pit
15 Jul 1875	The Fatal Accident In William Pit
27 Jul 1876	A Man Killed In William Pit
01 May 1877	Charge of Stealing a Cart of Coal
13 Dec 1877	The Archaeology Of the West Cumberland Coal Trade
13 Dec 1877	Cumberland Westmorland Archeolological Society
21 Feb 1878	The Fatal Accident at William Pit
21 Sep 1878	Breach Of The Mines Act
26 Sep 1878	A Careless Collier Important Prosecution
26 Sep 1878	Editorial
25 Sep 1879	Accident at William Pit
02 Oct 1879	Accident At William Pit
01 Nov 1879	A Dangerous Breach By A Collier
04 Mar 1880	Accident at William Pit
27 Apr 1882	Fearful Explosion at William Pit Four Men Killed
08 Jun 1882	The Fatal Explosion at William Pit The Inquest
15 Jun 1882	The Wiliam Pit Explosion Prosecution Of The Agent And Manager
17 Aug 1882	The William Pit Explosion Prosecution Of The Agent And Manager
01 Sep 1882	Smoking in William Pit, Whitehaven
07 Sep 1882	A Reckless Miner Severe Penalty
02 Nov 1882	A Young Man Killed at William Pit
01 Mar 1883	Shocking Death At William Pit
10 Apr 1884	Fatal Accident at William Pit
10 Apr 1884	Lecture On Fire Damp
17 Apr 1884	Fatal Accident At William Pit
19 Apr 1884	Fatal Mining Accident
26 Jun 1884	Accident At William Pit
12 Mar 1885	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
21 Aug 1885	Inquest At Whitehaven
07 Jul 1887	Accident At William Pit
08 Aug 1889	Fatal Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
15 Aug 1889	The Fatal Accident At William Pit
29 Aug 1889	Pit Accident At Whitehaven
04 Sep 1890	Stoppage At The Whitehaven Colliery
09 Oct 1890	Fatal Result Of An Accident at William Pit Adjourned Inquest, Yesterday
12 Nov 1891	Breach Of Collirey Regulations
03 Dec 1891	The Colliery Fatality At Whitehaven
04 Feb 1892	Serious Accident To A Whitehaven Collier
10 Mar 1892	Strike Of William Pit Colliers, Whitehaven
21 Jul 1892	Blasting Accident At William Pit
04 Aug 1892	The Recent Accident In William Pit, Whitehaven Colliery
26 Jan 1893	Tobacco Pipes And Matches In Whitehaven Colliery Prosecution Of Nine Workmen
09 Feb 1893	Accidents At William Pit
11 Jan 1894	Accident At Wellington Pit
11 Jan 1894	Fatal Accident At Whitehaven
18 Jan 1894	The Recent Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven The Adjourned Inquest
07 Apr 1894	Fatal Termination Of An Accident At Whitehaven
07 Apr 1894	Serious Accident At William Pit
07 Apr 1894	Fatal Result Of An Accident At Whitehaven
07 Apr 1894	Serious Pit Accident At Whitehaven Two Men Injured
12 Apr 1894	Two Men Injured At William Pit, Whitehaven
12 Jul 1894	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
02 Aug 1894	Serious Accident To A Whitehaven Colliery Overman
18 Apr 1895	Accident At Whitehaven, Yesterday
02 May 1895	Accident At Whitehaven
24 Oct 1895	Shocking Mining Fatality At Whitehaven
12 Mar 1896	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
07 May 1896	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
14 Jan 1897	Fatal Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
26 Aug 1897	Fatal Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
02 Dec 1897	Serious Accident At William Pit Two Men Injured
16 Dec 1897	Colliery Accident
07 Apr 1898	Accident At Whitehaven Colliery
30 Jun 1898	Mining Accident At Whitehaven
22 Sep 1898	Accident At William Pit
10 Nov 1898	Serious Accident At William Pit
08 Dec 1898	Serious Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
22 Dec 1898	Accident At William Pit
22 Dec 1898	William Pit, Whitehaven
05 Jan 1899	Whitehaven Collieries
12 Jan 1899	Repairs At William Pit
02 Feb 1899	Whitehaven Collieries
09 Feb 1899	Drowning Fatality At Whitehaven
09 Mar 1899	Serious Pit Accident At Whitehaven
06 Jul 1899	Fatal Accident At William Pit
06 Jul 1899	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
13 Jul 1899	The Recent Fatality At William Pit Carelessness Of Workmen
31 Aug 1899	Accident At William Pit
21 Dec 1899	Accident At William Pit
25 Jan 1900	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
08 Mar 1900	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven A Lad Killed By A Horse
24 May 1900	Accidents At William Pit, Whitehaven
24 May 1900	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
31 May 1900	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
21 Jun 1900	Fatal Fall Of Stone At Whitehaven
19 Jul 1900	Accidents At William Pit, Whitehaven
23 Aug 1900	Another Pit Accident
23 Aug 1900	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
08 Nov 1900	Sudden Death In A Coal Pit At Whitehaven
13 Dec 1900	Accident To A Colliery Fireman At Whitehaven
20 Dec 1900	Serious Accident At Wiliam Pit
27 Dec 1900	The Fatality To A Lad At Wellington Pit The Adjourned Inquest
07 Feb 1901	Death Of A Whitehaven Joiner
23 May 1901	Serious Accident At William Pit
20 Jun 1901	Serious Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
01 Aug 1901	Fireman Scalded At William Pit
08 Aug 1901	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
08 Aug 1901	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
26 Sep 1901	Accident To Joiners At William Pit
10 Oct 1901	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
17 Oct 1901	William Pit, Whitehaven Important Haulage And Ventilation Changes Opening Of The New Haulage Plane
19 Jun 1902	Fall Of Roof At William Pit, Whitehaven One Man Killed And Two Injured
16 Oct 1902	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
06 Nov 1902	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
11 Dec 1902	Funeral At Hensingham
12 Mar 1903	Pit Accident At Whitehaven
09 Jul 1903	Fatal Accident At William Pit
13 Aug 1903	Pit Accident At Whitehaven
20 Aug 1903	Fatal Accident At William Pit Colliers Prefer The Dangerous Way
24 Dec 1903	Pit Accident At Whitehaven
14 Jan 1904	Pit Accidents At Whitehaven
14 Jan 1904	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
14 Jan 1904	Mining Account At Whithaven Large Fall Of Rock A Driver Killed
11 Feb 1904	Colliery Accidents At Whitehaven
01 Dec 1904	Pit Accident At Whitehaven Two Men Injured
29 Mar 1906	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
17 May 1906	Serious Charge Against Colliers Committed For Trial On Two Charges
17 May 1906	Serious Charge Against Colliers Alleged Tub Sticking
24 May 1906	A Whitehaven Collier's Death The Resumed Inquest
28 Jun 1906	Fraud In A Whitehaven Pit
23 Aug 1906	Serious Pit Accident At Whitehaven
18 Nov 1907	The Colliery Explosion at Whitehaven
18 Nov 1907	Latest News The Whitehaven Colliery Explosion
27 Nov 1907	Colliery Explosion at Whitehaven
28 Nov 1907	The Colliery Explosion at Whitehaven
28 Nov 1907	Gas Explosion In William Pit, Whitehaven Five Men Killed And Seven Injured
28 Nov 1907	The Whitehaven Colliery Explosion Latest News
28 Nov 1907	Accident At William Pit Whitehaven
28 Nov 1907	Colliery Disaster At Whitehaven Explosion In William Pit Five Men Killed And Seven Injured
05 Dec 1907	The Gas Explosion At William Pit, Whitehaven The Inquest
09 Jan 1908	The Explosion At William Pit, Whitehaven The Resumed Inquiry
20 Feb 1908	Colliery Prosecution At Whitehaven Entering A Disued Working
25 May 1908	News
23 Jul 1908	Extensive Fall In A Whitehaven Pit Colliers Thrown Idle
23 Jul 1908	Cumberland Collieries
23 Jul 1908	Whitehaven Colliery Explosion Mine Inspector's Report
13 Aug 1908	Important Whitehaven Mining Question Brown And Others V. Whitehaven Colliery Company
08 Oct 1908	Mining Accident At Whitehaven
28 Jan 1909	Accident At William Pit, Whitehaven
22 Jul 1909	Shocking Fatality At William Pit
24 Feb 1910	Died In His 93rd Year Interesting Reminiscences
02 Jun 1910	The William Pit Men
09 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Meeting Of William Pit Men
09 Jun 1910	Whitehaven Pits
09 Jun 1910	William Pit Re-Started
16 Jun 1910	Success Of A Whitehaven Colliery Official
29 Sep 1910	Re-Opening Of Wellington Pit Quick Progress Finding Of Bodies
29 Sep 1910	Accident In William Pit
27 Oct 1910	The Stoppage Of The Pits
03 Nov 1910	The Mine Disaster
26 Jan 1911	The Dangers Of The Pits
09 Mar 1911	Scene In William Pit Safety Lamp Broken With A Pick Shaft
30 Mar 1911	Whitehaven Colliers Breach Of Contract. Ordered To Pay Company's Loss Sequel To A Death At The Mine
11 Apr 1911	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
13 Apr 1911	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
20 Apr 1911	The Dispute Of William Pit, Whitehaven Men To Resume Work
20 Apr 1911	The Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
03 Aug 1911	Serious Charge Against A Collier Smart Sentence
28 Sep 1911	Accident At William Pit Coke Ovens
18 Jan 1912	Man Injured at William Pit, Whitehaven
21 Mar 1912	Whitehaven And The Strike
15 May 1913	Shunting Fatality At Whitehaven The Inquest
22 Dec 1914	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven The Inquest
26 Aug 1915	Accident At William Pit
16 Mar 1916	Sad Pit Accident At Whitehaven Collier Killed By A Fall
15 Jun 1916	Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
16 Nov 1916	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
23 Nov 1916	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
03 May 1917	Fatal Result Of Accident At Whitehaven Parton Man's Death
04 Oct 1917	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
11 Oct 1917	The Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven The Inquest The Observance Of Safety Rules
22 Nov 1917	William Pit Fatality Fall Of Ten Ton Stone
29 Nov 1917	William Pit Fatality Fall Of A Ten-Ton Stone
27 Dec 1917	Engineman's Sudden Death At William Pit
03 Jan 1918	Engineman's Sudden Death At William Pit
20 Mar 1919	Whitehaven Coalminers Death
15 May 1919	Buried Under Six Tons Of Stone Inquest On Whitehaven Miner
29 Jan 1920	Whitehaven's Oldest Working "Collier" George Stephenson, Aged 87
13 May 1920	Parton Man Severely Injured At William Pit
20 May 1920	Fatality At William Pit, Whitehaven
16 Sep 1920	Whitehaven Colliery
15 Sep 1921	Fall Of Coal At Whitehaven Pit Badly Injured Collier's Remarkable Coolness
16 Feb 1922	Fatal Safety Lamp Accident At Whitehaven Collier Asks For Cigar After Operation
23 Mar 1922	Fire In Whitehaven Pit Graphic Scene Four Miles Under The Sea Many Workers Affected
13 Jul 1922	Explosion In Whitehaven Pit Tragic Death Of Two Workers
20 Jul 1922	Fire Damp Inquest On Two Whitehaven Miners Coroner And Carelessness
31 Aug 1922	Fatal Fall Of Roof At William Pit, Whitehaven The Inquest
14 Sep 1922	A Warning To Miners
22 Sep 1922	Saving Miners From Themselves A Whitehaven Prosecution
12 Oct 1922	Gas In A Whitehaven Pit Deputy Fined £5 Delay In Withdrawing Workers
11 Sep 1924	Whitehaven Pit Accident
04 Apr 1926	History Of Whitehaven Pits When Coal Was Two Shillings A Ton 18 Houses Demolished By Subsidences
24 Feb 1927	Mining Accidents Three Per Day Whitehaven Youth Killed
12 May 1927	Whitehaven Pit Accidents
15 Dec 1927	Youth Crushed By Tub
25 Feb 1928	News and Notes
01 Mar 1928	Imprisoned 5 Hours In 20 Feet Working Whitehaven Hewers' Ordeal
27 Aug 1928	Closing Collieries Notices in Warwickshire and at Whitehaven
24 Aug 1929	60 Years' Service
05 Jun 1930	20 Tons Fall In Whitehaven Pit One Killed; Two Injured Tunnel To Recover A Body
19 Feb 1931	Whitehaven Miners' Meeting Resumption Of Work
08 Jan 1932	Labour and Wages North of England
28 Apr 1932	Fatality In Whitehaven Pits Mr. W. Brown's Criticisms
19 May 1932	Veteran Miner Wath Brow Man Describes The Old Pits
22 Jun 1933	Whitehaven Pit Accident Worker Killed Instantly By Fall
29 Jun 1933	Crushed By Stone Whitehaven Pit Fatality A Broken Roof
14 Sep 1934	Labour and Wages North of England
11 Jul 1935	William Pit Accident
25 Oct 1935	Notes from the Coal Fields Cumberland
22 Nov 1935	Labour and Wages North of England
06 Dec 1935	Labour and Wages North of England
06 Feb 1936	Pit Ballot
31 Jul 1936	Notes from the Coal Fields Cumberland
16 Jan 1937	Colliery Rumours
06 Mar 1937	Whitehaven Pits To Re-Start
13 Mar 1937	Clogs For Miners
03 Apr 1937	Back At Work Again
10 Apr 1937	Whitehaven Colliery Reopened
27 May 1937	Coal For Ireland
09 Jan 1939	Pit Fire Three Miles Under the Sea Outbreak at Whitehaven
09 Jan 1939	Pit Fire Three Miles Under The Sea Outbreak At Whitehaven
18 Jan 1940	Whitehaven Mine Fatality Doctor Performs Operation Underground But Fails To Save Father Of Eight Children
20 Jun 1940	Whitehaven Engineman Arm Amputated
19 Sep 1940	Caught By Fall Whitehaven Brusher Killed
02 Jan 1941	Spine Hurt Death Of Whitehaven Brusher
04 Jun 1941	Whitehaven Pit Explosion Nine Dead And Three Missing
14 Jun 1941	Whitehaven Collieries Explosion
28 Jun 1941	William Pit Inquiry
12 Jul 1941	Duke At Haig Pit
17 Jul 1941	Whitehaven Pit Fatality Brusher Killed By Fall Of Stone
09 Aug 1941	Whitehaven Colliery Inquiry
11 Jul 1942	The Whitehaven Explosion Two Unusual Features
25 Jul 1942	Explosion At The William Pit
13 Apr 1944	Whitehaven Pit Accident Greenbank Repairer Killed
08 Feb 1945	62 Years In The Mines King Edward Medal Holder Passes
22 Aug 1946	Veteran Miner's Diamond Wedding
02 Jan 1947	Mining Family Head Sudden Death At Whitehaven
18 Aug 1947	104 Lost in Pit Disaster Only 13 Survivors at Whitehaven Three Escape Along Wrecked Roads
18 Aug 1947	Letter to the Editor Whitehaven Disaster
08 Oct 1947	Whitehaven Explosion Inquiry
24 Oct 1947	Cause Of Mine Disaster Warning To Other Pits
25 Dec 1947	Whitehaven Miners Lodge Elections
12 Jan 1948	Letters to the Editor Whitehaven Disaster
22 Apr 1948	Died In Pit Deputy Found Shifthand
27 Jan 1950	Miners' Officials Fly To Czechoslovakia
25 Jan 1951	T.A. Sergt.-Major Killed In Pit
01 Feb 1951	Huge Stone Killed Miner
05 Mar 1959	Killed In Haig Pit William Pit Explosion Survivor
19 Nov 1964	300 Years Of Coal Mining Haig Ready For £½m Modernisation Whitehaven Celebrates 70th "Charter" Anniversary
03 Dec 1964	Married 67 Years Veteran Miner's Death At Whitehaven

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