	Blaguegate Colliery	Index	Blaguegate Colliery

Blaguegate Colliery

Location:	Skelmersdale 7 miles [11 km] W of Wigan
Map Ref:	(Sheet 108 Liverpool, Southport and Wigan) SD469075, 53° 33' 42" N, 2° 48' 2" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	John Griffiths and Son Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Park - Coal.
	1894 - Whitemoss - Coal.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Day Eye - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1915 - Arley - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - Park - 221 (179 below, 42 surface)
	1894 - Whitemoss - 140 (117 below, 23 surface)
	1910 - 209 (159 below, 50 surface)
	1915 - Day Eye - 70 (55 below, 15 surface)
	1915 - Arley - 228 (170 below, 58 surface)
	1933 - 153 (121 below, 32 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Arley
	1915 - Day Eye - Arley
	1915 - Arley - Arley, Rushey Park
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!

						Aspinwell, William, 27 Aug 1877, aged 42, Collier, Fall of roof
						Boyer, Joseph, 08 Aug 1890, aged 62, Pusher on, Inspection made and inquest attended. A fall of roof in the shunt from some slips. Advised them to use bars in all the shunts
						Grey, Richard, 20 May 1874, (accident: 14 May 1874), aged 29, Collier, Burnt by explosion of powder. While trying to burn some fuse a spark fell into his powder bottle. Died 20th May
						Heaton, Richard, 13 May 1916, aged 25, Drawer, Killed by a fall of roof
						Hooley, John, 13 Feb 1920, aged 47, Dataller, Killed by a fall of roof
						Morris, John, 02 Nov 1870, aged 25, Collier, Fall of roof
						Platt, Edward, 27 Mar 1875, aged 39, Engineman, Whilst fixing steam pipes in shaft, was knocked off cage, owing to a chain breaking
						Pye, James, 09 Jun 1888, (accident: 03 May 1888), aged 41, Collier, Inquest attended. He was helping to lift a tub on to the rails when it caught his leg slightly injuring it. Blood poisoning set in and he died 9th June
						Roughley, Peter, 09 Apr 1873, aged 24, Collier, Fall of roof
						Smith, Norman, 30 Apr 1928, (accident: 29 Mar 1928), aged 26, Collier, Injured back by fall of roof. Died 30th Apr
						Snape, Daniel, 26 Dec 1859, aged 60, Collier, An explosion of firedamp
						Turner, William, 09 Sep 1885, aged 40, Prop taker, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased had drawn about 30 props and was knocking out the last one with his hammer when it came out more easily than he expected and falling forward he was caught by a stone which fell at that moment
						Whittingham, Edward, 08 Jan 1903, aged 13, Slack-cleaner, Inspection made and inquest attended. Deceased was in a slack coal waggon under the screen, when the waggon was being lowered, and he appears to have been looking over the edge of it when he got fatally crushed against the cross beam of the screen. It happened to be a higher waggon than what they were accustomed to have. Boys will not be allowed to remain in the waggons when moved in future

						13 names found

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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.

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Credits

Sources:

1859 Mines Inspectors Report, West Lancashire and North Wales District by Peter Higson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), West Lancashire and North Wales District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Liverpool District by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Liverpool District by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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