	Birks (Iron Ore)	Index	Birks (Iron Ore)

Birks (Iron Ore)

Location:	Frizington
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Owners:	1880s - Woods Bros.
	1890s - Frizington Mining Co. Ltd.
Output:	1865 - Iron ore.
	1882 - Iron Ore.
	1883 - Iron ore.
	1894 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Birks (Iron Ore)
Employment:	1894 - 100 (80 below, 20 surface)
	1896 - 75 (60 below, 15 surface)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Birks (Iron Ore)

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!

						Clements, William, 17 Nov 1865, aged 17, cage capsized throwing him down the pit
						Crone, David, 17 Nov 1894, 10:30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 15, Labourer, Irruption of water from the workings of an old adjoining pit [Inspection made & inquest attended], Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Cleator Moor [More information ...]
						Harrison, David, 17 Nov 1894, 10:30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 35, Miner, Irruption of water from the workings of an old adjoining pit [Inspection made & inquest attended], Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Cleator Moor [More information ...]
						Martin, James, 07 Nov 1873, aged 50, Labourer, Crushed between two iron ore trucks
						Martin, Patrick, 31 Jan 1862, he was killed by a fall of metal from the roof
						Ross, Joseph, 30 Apr 1856, Miner, he was standing at the bottom of the shaft when a piece of ore from an ascending bogey fell upon his head and killed him on the spot
						Swainey, Charles, 13 Jun 1871, aged 60, Labourer, about half past six in the evening the deceased was shunting a wagon containing ten tons of iron-ore, and while trying to stop it, he got between it and the wall that runs along the tramway; here he became in some way entangled with the wagons, which trailed him along the road for about 14 yards; a man named Charles Atkinson heard the deceased's cries, and stopped the wagon, but Swainey had received mortal injury, and died the same day
						Toy, Thomas, 17 Nov 1894, 10:30 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 15, Labourer, Irruption of water from the workings of an old adjoining pit [Inspection made & inquest attended], Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Cleator Moor [More information ...]

						8 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Anglesey, Brecon, Cardigan, etc. District by T. Fanning Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works