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Date	Headline(s)
09 Sep 1837	News
10 Dec 1839	News
21 Apr 1840	News
25 Apr 1843	Duke of Wellington Pit
13 Jan 1844	Distressing Accident
06 Feb 1844	News
06 Apr 1844	Inquest
23 Dec 1845	News
27 Dec 1845	Inquest
29 Oct 1847	Inquests
24 Oct 1848	News
02 Oct 1849	News
15 Jan 1850	News
03 May 1851	Coroner's Inquest
06 May 1851	News
08 May 1851	News
15 Nov 1851	Fatal Accident at Wellington Pit
08 Feb 1853	News
19 Feb 1853	Inquest
22 Feb 1853	Inquest
05 Apr 1853	News
09 Apr 1853	Accident at Wellington Pit
21 Feb 1854	News
22 Oct 1857	Fatal Accident at Wellington Pit Adjourned Inquest
03 Jul 1858	Death By Burning
10 Jul 1858	The Late Accident at Wellington Pit
21 Oct 1858	Accident In Wellington Pit
26 Oct 1858	The Late Accident In Wellington Pit
11 Nov 1858	Assault Case at Wellington Pit
05 Mar 1859	The Colliers
25 Jul 1861	Fatal Colliery Accident at Whitehaven
25 Jul 1861	The Late Fatal Colliery Accident at Whitehaven Adjourned Inquest
24 Apr 1862	Shocking Accident at Wellington Pit
26 Apr 1862	Shocking Accident At Wellington Pit
01 May 1862	The Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
01 May 1862	The Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
07 Aug 1862	Fatal Accident at Wellington Pit
14 Aug 1862	The Late Accident In Wellington Pit
27 Nov 1862	Fatal Accident at Wellington Pit
27 Apr 1863	Breach Of Colliery Rules Daring Descent Down A Pit Shaft
28 Apr 1863	Foolhardihood at Duke Pit
01 Sep 1863	Firing of the Wellington Coalpit at Whitehaven
08 Sep 1863	The Fire at Wellington Pit
15 Sep 1863	The Fire in Wellington Coalpit
22 Sep 1863	The Fire at Wellington Pit
29 Sep 1863	The Fire in Wellington Pit
14 Nov 1863	Accidents, Inquests, etc. A Coalpit On Fire
17 Nov 1863	The Fire at Wellington Pit
19 Jul 1866	Accident
12 Dec 1867	Fatal Accident To A Miner
05 Feb 1870	Ventilation Of The Whitehaven Collieries
04 Jan 1872	Melancholy Occurrence at Wellington Pit
11 Jan 1872	Two Boys Killed at Wellington Pit
06 Jun 1872	The Whitehaven Collieries
28 Nov 1872	The Whitehaven Collieries Further Improvements
27 Mar 1873	Experiments In Whitehaven Collieries
27 Mar 1873	Fatal Occurrence at Wellington Pit
23 Aug 1877	Shocking Accident at Wellington Pit, Last Night
30 Aug 1877	The Late Fatal Accident at Wellington Pit
30 Aug 1877	Serious Accident at Wellington Pit
13 Dec 1877	The Archaeology Of the West Cumberland Coal Trade
13 Dec 1877	Cumberland Westmorland Archeolological Society
22 Aug 1878	Accident In Wellington Pit
18 Mar 1880	Man Killed at Wellington Pit Last Night
04 Nov 1880	Sad Fatality at Wellington Pit
17 Jun 1886	Accident At Wellington Pit
17 Jun 1886	Assaulting Lord Lonsdale's Watchman
07 Mar 1889	Serious Accident To A Miner At Wellington Pit
27 Mar 1890	Accident To A Woman
01 May 1890	Shocking Fatal Accident To A Lad At Whitehaven
09 Oct 1890	The Dispute At The Whitehaven Colliery An Agreement Come To
21 Oct 1890	Cruelty To A Pit Horse At Whitehaven
29 Jan 1891	Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
05 Feb 1891	The Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
02 Jul 1891	Serious Accidents At Wellington Pit
13 Jul 1893	Accident At Wellington Pit
27 Jul 1893	Serious Accident At Wellington Pit
17 Aug 1893	Accident At Wellington Pit
26 Oct 1893	Accident At Wellington Pit
11 Jan 1894	Local Employer's Liability Cases
11 Jan 1894	Accident At Wellington Pit
22 Feb 1894	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
07 Apr 1894	Cumberland Coal Trade
03 May 1894	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
31 Jan 1895	Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
26 Sep 1895	The Disputes At Whitehaven Colliery Work To Be Resumed At Croft Pit
28 Nov 1895	Mining Fatality At Whitehaven
02 Apr 1896	Mining Fatality At Whitehaven
15 Oct 1896	Terrible Accident At Wellington Pit
05 Nov 1896	Accident To A Miner
24 Dec 1896	Serious Accident At Wellington Pit Break In A Haulage Engine Fall Of A Cage
01 Jul 1897	A Visit To Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
22 Jul 1897	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
29 Jul 1897	Accident At Wellington Pit
05 Aug 1897	Accident At Wellington Pit
02 Dec 1897	Mining Fatality At Whitehaven
27 Jan 1898	Accident At Whitehaven
10 Feb 1898	Accident At Wellington Pit
28 Apr 1898	Serious Mining Accident At Whitehaven
22 Sep 1898	Serious Accident At Wellington Pit
13 Oct 1898	Fatal Result Of A Mining Accident At Whitehaven
20 Oct 1898	The Recent Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
22 Dec 1898	Accident At Wellington Pit
22 Dec 1898	William Pit, Whitehaven
05 Jan 1899	Whitehaven Collieries
02 Feb 1899	Whitehaven Collieries
29 Mar 1900	Accident At Wellington Pit Yard
03 May 1900	Fatal Colliery Accident At Whitehaven
12 Jul 1900	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
13 Dec 1900	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whithaven
20 Dec 1900	Shocking Fatality To A Lad At Wellington Pit
27 Dec 1900	The Fatality To A Lad At Wellington Pit The Adjourned Inquest
27 Jun 1901	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whithaven
08 Aug 1901	Sudden Death At Whitehaven
10 Oct 1901	Fatality At Wellington Pit Run Over By A Set
17 Oct 1901	The Recent Fatality At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
25 Sep 1902	Sad Fatality At Wellington Pit Top A Young Man Killed A Touching Incident
02 Oct 1902	The Fatality At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven The Adjourned Inquest
14 Jan 1904	Pit Accidents At Whitehaven
08 Sep 1904	Caught By A Full Sett At Croft Pit
08 Dec 1904	Serious Accident At Wellington Pit
23 Feb 1905	Fatal Pit Accident At Whitehaven Killed On The Eve Of His Marriage
02 Mar 1905	The Fatal Accident At Whitehaven The Adjourned Inquest, Yesterday
27 Jul 1905	Serious Accident To A Whitehaven Collier
08 Nov 1906	Coal Stealing Whitehaven Youths Before The Magistrates
18 Jul 1907	Coal Stealers At Whitehaven Boy To Receive Twelve Strokes With The Birch The Chairman On The Receivers Of Coal
21 Nov 1907	A Narrow Escape
06 Aug 1908	Death Of An Old Whitehaven Colliery Employee
07 Jan 1909	Fatality At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
08 Jul 1909	Accident At Wellington Pit
17 Feb 1910	Fatal Termination To An Accident At Whitehaven
10 Mar 1910	Fatal Termination To An Accident At Wellington Pit
17 Mar 1910	Accident At Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
12 May 1910	Serious Accident At Wellington Pit
13 May 1910	Colliery Disaster Many Miners Entombed
13 May 1910	Terrible Pit Disaster 137 Men Buried In Blazing Mine Frantic Women's Vigil
13 May 1910	Avalanche Of Death Terrible Scenes Four Men's Rush For Life
14 May 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster Rescue Measures Abandoned
16 May 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster Royal Sympathy And Donations
17 May 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster
17 May 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disasters
18 May 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster Experts' Conference
19 May 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster The Mayor's Fund
19 May 1910	The Disaster At Wellington Pit 137 Men And Boys Closed In By Fire Appalling Calamity
19 May 1910	Coincidences
19 May 1910	Looking Back
19 May 1910	The Brick Wall
19 May 1910	The Colliery Calamity
19 May 1910	The Inevitable
19 May 1910	Those Who Mourn
23 May 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Mayor's Relief Fund
24 May 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
26 May 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Further Exploration Pit Now Doubly Sealed
26 May 1910	A Suggestion
26 May 1910	The Colliery Relief Fund
26 May 1910	The Miners And The Disaster
26 May 1910	What To Do With It
27 May 1910	Whitehaven Colliery Disaster
28 May 1910	The Whitehaven Disaster
02 Jun 1910	Allerdale Colliery Company's Clifton Pit Doubling Of The Shift
02 Jun 1910	Dangers Of Coalmining
02 Jun 1910	The Men Out Of Work
02 Jun 1910	The William Pit Men
02 Jun 1910	Stoppage At William Pit Gas In The Pit Inspection By Men's Representatives
07 Jun 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
09 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Further Exploration Fire Probably Out
09 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Meeting Of William Pit Men
09 Jun 1910	Mayor's Relief Fund
09 Jun 1910	Pit Lamps
09 Jun 1910	The Analysis Of The Gases
09 Jun 1910	The Unsealing Of The Pit
09 Jun 1910	Whitehaven Pits
09 Jun 1910	William Pit Re-Started
10 Jun 1910	Mr. Keir Hardie and the Whitehaven Disaster
13 Jun 1910	The Whitehaven Disaster
16 Jun 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster
16 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Exploring Party Who Descended The Pit On Sunday Last
16 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Cumberland Miners' Association Whitehaven Relief Fund
16 Jun 1910	The Progress Of The Pit Exploration
16 Jun 1910	The Sealing Of The Pit
16 Jun 1910	The Union And The Relief Fund
16 Jun 1910	Unthinkable
23 Jun 1910	Whitehaven Pit Accident
23 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Exploration Stopped Another Conference Of Experts
23 Jun 1910	The Wellington Pit Disaster Discussion In Parliament Home Secretary Promises Amending Legislation
07 Jul 1910	The Mayor's Fund
07 Jul 1910	Pit Rescue Work
07 Jul 1910	The Causes Of Explosion
14 Jul 1910	The Mayor's Fund
14 Jul 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster The Mayor's Fund
21 Jul 1910	Letter
22 Jul 1910	Award of Edward Medals
28 Jul 1910	Wellington Disaster The King Edward Medals For 49 Rescuers
28 Jul 1910	An Important Mining Experiment
28 Jul 1910	And "The News"
28 Jul 1910	Dividends And Safety
28 Jul 1910	Hasty Speech, Lame Apology
28 Jul 1910	Judging After Event
28 Jul 1910	The Sealing Of The Mine
04 Aug 1910	The Miners And The Medals
04 Aug 1910	Presentation Of The Medals Departure From Whitehaven
05 Aug 1910	Award of Edward Medals
24 Aug 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
20 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Colliery Accident
26 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
27 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
28 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Finding Of Bodies
29 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
29 Sep 1910	Re-Opening Of Wellington Pit Quick Progress Finding Of Bodies
30 Sep 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Fifty Bodies Found
01 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster More Bodies Discovered
03 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
04 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
05 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
06 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
06 Oct 1910	The Re-Opening Of Wellington Pit Thursday's Good Day's Work 50 More Bodies Found
06 Oct 1910	A Common Grave And Monument
06 Oct 1910	A Town Of Mourning
06 Oct 1910	A Veritable Way Of Death
06 Oct 1910	Sanitary Restrictions
06 Oct 1910	The Crux Of The Coming Inquiry
06 Oct 1910	The Monument
07 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
08 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
10 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Disaster Identification Of The Bodies
12 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
13 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
13 Oct 1910	Coroners And Juries
13 Oct 1910	The Mining Disaster: Identification Of Bodies
13 Oct 1910	A New Electric Lamp
13 Oct 1910	Coroners' Inquests
13 Oct 1910	Fees For Service
13 Oct 1910	Identification Of Bodies
13 Oct 1910	The Mystery Of The Mine
13 Oct 1910	The Mine Disaster Thursday's Developments Futher Exploring
15 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Supposed Cause
15 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Supposed Cause
17 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
18 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
19 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
20 Oct 1910	The Mine Disaster Thursday 12 Bodies Found
22 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disasters
23 Oct 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
27 Oct 1910	Wellington Pit
27 Oct 1910	The Stoppage Of The Pits
27 Oct 1910	The Mining Disaster Friday's Findings The Friction Gear Fire And Falls
03 Nov 1910	The Mine Disaster
03 Nov 1910	A Serious Rumour
03 Nov 1910	Wellington Pit
16 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Official Inquiry Opened
17 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
17 Nov 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster The Inquest And Home Office Inquiry
18 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
19 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
22 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
23 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
24 Nov 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster The Inquest And Home Office Inquiry Thursday's Proceedings
30 Nov 1910	The Whitehaven Disaster
01 Dec 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
01 Dec 1910	The Mining Disaster The Inquest And Inquiry Tuesday's Proceedings
01 Dec 1910	Discovery Of More Cremated Remains
02 Dec 1910	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster
02 Dec 1910	The Wellington Pit Inquiry
03 Dec 1910	Verdict on Whitehaven Disaster Officials Absolved From Blame
08 Dec 1910	The Mining Inquest Thursday's Proceedings
15 Dec 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster Recovery Of Another Body The Inquest
15 Dec 1910	The Last Of The Bodies Recovered Mistaken Identification
17 Dec 1910	Cottages Buried At Whitehaven Three Persons Killed
22 Dec 1910	Disaster Near Wellington Pit Head Collapse Of A Retaining Wall Three Persons Killed
22 Dec 1910	The Wall Collapse Tragedy
22 Dec 1910	Whitehaven Colliery Disaster Colliers' Public Meeting Petition To The Home Office
22 Dec 1910	Wellington Pit Disaster Memorial Service Address By The Bishop
29 Dec 1910	Miners Unions
29 Dec 1910	Pit Explosions
14 Feb 1911	Award of Edward Medals
16 Feb 1911	Disasters In Coal Mines Home Secretary And Legislation
16 Feb 1911	Edward Medals For More Whitehaven Miners
16 Feb 1911	Safety Lamps And Coal Dust
17 Feb 1911	The Whitehaven Pit Disaster Home Office Criticism
23 Feb 1911	The Whitehaven Disaster
23 Feb 1911	Whitehaven Pit Fire Home Office Reports Dust And The Spread Of The Explosion
03 Mar 1911	The Whitehaven Disaster Report Of Miners Representatives
23 Mar 1911	Wellington Pit Disaster Mayor's Relief Fund
23 Mar 1911	Exits And Standard Ventilation
23 Mar 1911	Safety In The Mines
23 Mar 1911	The Whitehaven Colliery Disaster The Inspection Of Mines
13 Apr 1911	The Prospects Of Wellington Pit
18 May 1911	Whitehaven County Court Colliery Compensation Dependants
18 May 1911	Whitehaven Colliery
25 May 1911	Wellington Pit New Developments Good News For Whitehaven
06 Jul 1911	The Local Miners' Union And Distress Funds
21 Mar 1912	Whitehaven And The Strike
30 May 1912	Horse Killed At Whitehaven Harbour
07 May 1914	A Collier's Death Follows An Accident
03 Dec 1914	Accident At Wellington Pit
25 Nov 1915	Wellington Pit Accident Four Men Injured
16 Dec 1915	The Explosion At Wellington Pit Injured Man's Death
23 Dec 1915	The Explosion At Wellington Pit The Adjourned Inquiry
23 Mar 1916	Fatality At Wellington Pit
30 Mar 1916	Dilly Fatality At Wellington Pit Runaway Switch Propped Open Uncoupled Tubs Come Amain
15 Jun 1916	Fatal Accident At Wellington Pit
24 Aug 1916	Sudden Death In Wellington Pit Jury Find It Due To Previous Accident
28 Jun 1917	Pit Lads' Argument Leads To Blows
17 Jan 1918	The Sudden Death At Wellington Pit The Adjourned Inquest
07 Mar 1918	A Whitehaven Collier's Death
13 May 1920	Ex-Soldier's Sudden Death In Wellington Pit
20 May 1920	The Sudden Death In Wellington Pit, Whitehaven
16 Sep 1920	Whitehaven Colliery
08 Dec 1920	Deplorable Colliery Accident at Whitehaven Three Men Killed and Two Injured Sad Fate of D.C.M.
09 Dec 1920	Black Day At Whitehaven Pit
16 Dec 1920	Crushed Between Engine And Wagon Whitehaven Engine Driver's Fatal Injuries
06 Jan 1921	Aged Colliers Suicide At Whitehaven
17 Feb 1921	Youth's Fight At Wellington Pit A Cup, Broken Nose, And Iron Bar
01 Sep 1921	Fire At Wellington Pit 250 Men Escape By Emergency Exit
05 Apr 1923	Cigarettes and Matches in Pit Whitehaven Miner Fined
17 Jan 1924	Whitehaven Pit Accident Haulage Wheel Wrecks Stage Two Killed: Three Injured
17 Jan 1924	Accident In Wellington Pit Maryport Man Injured
28 Feb 1924	Whitehaven Miner's Death Pit Accident Five Months Ago
06 Mar 1924	Whitehaven Miner's Death Doctors Differ
26 Jun 1924	Alleged "Tub Sticking" Wellington Pit Miners Charged
14 Aug 1924	Fatal Pit Accident Men Struck By Unexpected Sett Inquest On Whitehaven Hewer
28 Aug 1924	Wellington Pit Accident
02 Jul 1925	Fall Of Roof Two Whitehaven Hewers Caught A Fatal Ending
09 Jul 1925	Without Warning Whitehaven Hewer Caught By Two-Ton Stone Rescuer With Fractured Skull
06 Aug 1925	Tubs Collide Whitehaven Pit Fatality Shouts As Method Of Signalling
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	Early Morning Coal Stealers Caught Redhanded At Whitehaven
22 Dec 1927	Haig Pit Rescue Party
22 Dec 1927	Into The Unknown
19 Jan 1928	Killed In Whitehaven Pit Cleator Moor Hewer's Broken Neck
26 Jan 1928	Killed Instantly By Fall Of Roof Inquest On Cleator Moor Hewer
13 Feb 1928	Pit Disaster Search Party's Fate 13 Killed At Whitehaven
08 Mar 1928	The Whitehaven Explosions Evidence At Inquiry
14 Jul 1928	News and Notes
18 Oct 1928	Whitehaven Pit Accident
18 Oct 1928	Miner's Leg Fractured
06 Dec 1928	Whitehaven Miner Injured
16 May 1929	Matches In Mine Whitehaven Magistrate's Warning
26 Sep 1929	Mine Boys on Strike at Whitehaven Three Thousand Workers Idle
27 Sep 1929	Whitehaven Colliery Dispute Negotiations As To Boys' Wages
06 Nov 1929	Bench's Tribute To Colliery Company
19 Feb 1931	Whitehaven Miners' Meeting Resumption Of Work
21 Mar 1931	Conference At Whitehaven
29 Apr 1931	Whitehaven Colliery Dispute Question of Shot-firing Strike of Haig and Wellington Men
06 May 1931	Whitehaven Colliery Dispute Extraordinary Result of Ballot Another Vote to be Taken
28 Apr 1932	Fatality In Whitehaven Pits Mr. W. Brown's Criticisms
11 Mar 1933	Pit Disaster Recalled Death Of Man Who Was Decorated By King
23 Nov 1933	Collapsed At Work Death Of Whitehaven Engineman
12 Oct 1934	Notes from the Coal Fields Cumberland
13 Oct 1934	Developments at Whitehaven Collieries
06 Feb 1936	Pit Ballot
16 Jan 1937	Colliery Rumours
06 Mar 1937	Whitehaven Pits To Re-Start
13 Mar 1937	Clogs For Miners
27 May 1937	Coal For Ireland
02 May 1940	Caught Under Fall Whitehaven Miner's Fortitude
25 Jul 1942	Explosion At The William Pit
10 Dec 1942	Haig Pit Fall One Killed, One Injured
18 Mar 1943	56 Years In The Mines Haig Pit Accident Victim
08 Feb 1945	62 Years In The Mines King Edward Medal Holder Passes
02 Jan 1947	Mining Family Head Sudden Death At Whitehaven
18 Aug 1960	Whitehaven Pit Veteran Dies
03 Dec 1964	Married 67 Years Veteran Miner's Death At Whitehaven

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