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Bullgill Colliery
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| Location: | Bullgill, Maryport |
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| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1910? |
| Owners: | 1900s - Bullgill Coal Co. Ltd. |
| Output: | 1900 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. Fireclay. |
| 1902 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1900 - 239 (165 below, 74 surface) |
| 1902 - 245 (183 below, 62 surface) | |
| 1905 - 285 (195 below, 90 surface) | |
| 1910 - 183 (146 below, 37 surface) | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Metal Band, Thirty Inch |
| 1910 - Metal Band, Rattler Band, Ten Quarters, Thirty Inch | |
| Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bullgill Colliery |
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| Notes: | 1911 - Ten Quarters, Yard, Little Main, Rattler, Metal, Thirty Inch seams abandoned |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Ashburn, Isaac, 24 Nov 1905, aged 54, Hewer, Buried: Hayton Church [More information ...] | |||||
| Ritson, Robert, 22 Oct 1905, (accident: 15 Sep 1905), aged 64, Heap Inspector [More information ...] | |||||
| Routledge, George, 09 May 1902, (accident: 26 Mar 1900), Roadsman, died 9th May, 1902 (more than a year after the accident), crushed between the top hoop of a three decked cage and the flatsheets at the surface ; he was in the act of getting into the top deck when the cage moved away ; no inquest held | |||||
|  | Simpson, William, 04 Jan 1865, aged 19, loosened a large mass of coal, which suddenly gave way, and falling upon him, crushed his head and chest so severely that he died upon the spot | ||||
| 4 names found | ||||||
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
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