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Broughton Moor Quarry (Slate)

Location:	Torver 15½ miles [25 km] NNE of Barrow-in-Furness
Map Ref:	(Sheet 96) SD252945, 54° 20' 25" N, 3° 9' 2" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1900s - F. Wickwar
	1900s - Broughton Moor Slate Co.
	1980s - Burlington Slate Ltd.
Output:	1905 - Slate.
	1908 - Slate.
	1915 - Slate.
	1921 - Slate.
	1984 - Slate.
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Broughton Moor Quarry (Slate)
Employment:	1905 - 18 (9 below, 9 surface)
	1908 - 6 (2 below, 4 surface)
	1915 - 4 (2 below, 2 surface)
	1921 - 0 [Not worked]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

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!

						Smale, Joseph, 17 Feb 1903, aged 55, Miner, Deceased, who was an experienced iron ore miner, but had only worked at this mine for three weeks, was one of a gang of ten iron ore miners who had taken a contract. Only one of the gang had had experience in slate mines. A chamber, 16 feet high by 18 feet wide, had been opened out 70 yards from the entrance of a level 6 feet square. the level face being 10 yards further in. A shot was fired in the chamber some distance from where the fall took place, about an hour before the accident by deceased and his mate, and after it the roof and sides were sounded and considered safe, but several tons of stuff fell from the level side opposite the chamber and killed deceased.

						1 name found

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Credits

Sources:

1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), 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
1908 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey