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Barnborough Colliery

Location:	Doncaster 6 miles [9 km] W of Doncaster
Map Ref:	(Sheet 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SE476032, 53° 31' 24" N, 1° 16' 51" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Manvers Main Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.
	1954 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.
Employment:	1923 - 1,424 (1,167 below, 257 surface)
	1933 - No. 5 - 2,230 (1,822 below, 408 surface)
	1940 - No. 5 - 761 (605 below, 156 surface)
	1940 - No. 6 - 1,114 (883 below, 231 surface)
	1947 - 2,223 (1,675 below, 548 surface)
	1954 - 2,359 (1,990 below, 369 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Barnsley, Haigh Moor, Newhill, Parkgate
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Barnburgh, Doncaster: Sunk 1912/15, deepened 1954 to 1788 yds.; 2,000 men produce 848,000 tons from Newhill Melton field seams.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in South Yorkshire, published May 1967

Disasters (5 or more killed)

26th

Jun

1957

Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by flash from a damaged electric cable, 6 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Carlin, William Edward, 12 Apr 1943, aged 44, [Sunderland Echo reports: accident - 12 Apr 1943 pg 4 col 5]
						Cooper, Charles, 24 Apr 1942, aged 41, "Bump" in strata [More information ...]
						Corbridge, Richard, 26 Jun 1957, aged 35, Belt Turner [More information ...]
						Edwards, John Fredrick, 01 Nov 1915, aged 31, Collier, Engaged working a roadway in coal and left a piece of top which fell and killed him
						Fells, Herbert, 26 Jun 1957, aged 41, Wasteman [More information ...]
						Hill, Joseph, 26 Jun 1957, aged 55, Back Ripper [More information ...]
						Lackenby, Alfred, 24 Apr 1942, aged 26, "Bump" in strata [More information ...]
						Lunness, David, 26 Jun 1957, aged 48, Wasteman [More information ...]
						Rodgers, John William, 24 Apr 1942, aged 26, "Bump" in strata [More information ...]
						Smith, Derek, 26 Jun 1957, aged 28, Wasteman [More information ...]
						Southwell, George Frederick, 24 Apr 1942, aged 41, "Bump" in strata [More information ...]
						Stott, Charles Trevor, 26 Jun 1957, aged 32, Belt Turner [More information ...]
						Taylor, Frank, 1923
						Yates, G., 07 Jun 1934, (accident: 02 Jun 1934), aged 58, Collier, Holing at loose end of face when a bump occurred and piece of rock fell on him. Died 5 days later

						14 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

For those names marked the text of the Mines Inspectors report into the incident is available online. Click on the icon to display the report.

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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre (CMHRC) and are marked with . The CMHRC is available here.

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Sunderland Echo