	Beighton Colliery	Index	Beighton Colliery

Beighton Colliery

Location:	5½ miles [9 km] SSE of Rotherham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 111 Sheffield and Doncaster, 120 Mansfield and Worksop) SK446847, 53° 21' 26" N, 1° 19' 45" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1905 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household.
	1910 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household.
	1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam. (555,985 tons)
Employment:	1905 - 756 (691 below, 65 surface)
	1910 - 977 (786 below, 191 surface)
	1947 - 1,964 (1,580 below, 384 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Silkstone
	1910 - Silkstone
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Brindley, William G., 27 Sep 1936, aged 48, Overman, Shaft acccident [More information ...]
						Cummings, Sidney Hill, 06 Dec 1912, aged 23, Filler, Deceased was acting as plane man, at the time of the accident, on a main rope engine plane where the set travels at 3½ miles an hour, up an incline of 1 in 9. His duty was to walk up with the set to another junction, and he was found on the inside of the curve at that junction, badly injured, having been caught by the set
						Johnson, William Henry, 21 Mar 1932, aged 40, Killed by a fall of roof, Buried: Aston Churchyard
						Leadbeater, Thomas, 27 Sep 1936, aged 32, Ripper, Shaft acccident [More information ...]
						Linton, Charles E., 27 Sep 1936, aged 32, Deputy, Shaft acccident [More information ...]
						Platts, Arthur, 09 Mar 1911, (accident: 22 Jan 1911), aged 42, Labourer, Whilst fixing a door over the sump he was caught by a descending cage. He went on to the sump boards without getting possession of the cage. He died on the 9th March
						Thacheray, Arthur, 11 Nov 1911, (accident: 10 Nov 1911), aged 15, Rope Runner, He was in charge of a set of 9 full tubs going up an engine plane, and he appears to have stopped on to a buffer to guide the first tub round a bend, when he slipped off and was dragged some yards up the plane. He died the next day

						7 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Yorkshire and North Midland District (No. 4) by W. H. Pickering, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), Yorkshire and North Midland District (No. 4) by Thomas H. Mottram, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
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