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Bilsthorpe Colliery

Location:	Bilsthorpe 15 miles [24 km] NNE of Nottingham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 120 Mansfield and Worksop) SK653618, 53° 8' 57" N, 1° 1' 25" W
Opened:
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1925-28
Owners:	Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (398,800 tons)
Employment:	1933 - 1,560 (1,300 below, 260 surface)
	1940 - 1,740 (1,480 below, 260 surface)
	1947 - 1,264 (1,030 below, 234 surface)
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Bilsthorpe, Bilsthorpe, Nr. Newark: Sunk 1925-28, is 792 yds. deep; 1,200 men produce 600,000 tons Top Hard, Parkgate, Low Main.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in North Nottinghamshire, published April 1967

Disasters (5 or more killed)

	1st	Mar	1927		Shaft accident, cause uncertain, but probably collapse of water pipes, 14 lives lost (Show Names)
	26th	Jul	1934		Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing, 9 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Bisgrove, Frederick, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Burrows, William, 31 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 24, Drawing wastes and packer, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Corrigan, Michael, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Crowder, Thomas William, 27 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 29, Ripper, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Eaton, John William, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Friestley, Thomas, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Grufferty, Thomas, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Haddock, Daniel, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Hardy, Walter, 28 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 33, Drawing wastes and packer, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Jones, David Robert, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Jones, John William, 27 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 32, Permanent Rescue Man, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Kelly, Patrick, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Lock, Charles Albert, 03 Mar 1942, (accident: 01 Mar 1942), aged 33, crushed by tubs, died in Nottingham General Hospital
						Marshall, G., 25 Jun 1936, Stall Man, killed by a fall of coal
						Mason, Leslie, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Phipps, Joseph, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Preater, William, 03 Aug 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 38, Permanent Rescue Man [More information ...]
						Reeves, Enoch, 29 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 44, Drawing wastes and packer, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Robinson, John, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Robinson, William James, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Satchwell, Thomas, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Thacker, John William, 01 Mar 1927 [More information ...]
						Warsop, Edward, 27 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 41, Drawing wastes and packer, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Woodcock, Arthur, 27 Jul 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 35, Ripper, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by shot firing [More information ...]
						Wright, Wilson J., 07 Aug 1934, (accident: 26 Jul 1934), aged 30, Ripper [More information ...]

						25 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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Credits

Sources:

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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website