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	Crosshow Colliery	Index	Crosshow Colliery

Location:	Dearham 12½ miles [20 km] NNE of Whitehaven
Map Ref:	(Sheet 89) NY069366, 54° 42' 56" N, 3° 26' 43" W
Opened:
Closed:	13 Jul 1903
Owners:	1890s - Dearham Colliery Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1902 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1896 - 78 (54 below, 24 surface)
	1900 - 142 (117 below, 25 surface)
	1902 - 115 (94 below, 21 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Crosshow Colliery
Notes:	1903, 13 Jul - Little Main, No. 1 or 18 in. Coal, No. 2 or Lickbank seams abandoned - Unremunerative
	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Crosshow Colliery

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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!

						McMaster, Frank, 01 Aug 1900, aged 19, Hewer, The deceased was firing a gelatine dynamite shot in a top canch, and after lighting the fuse he waited too long, thinking the fuse was not burning. He should have at once retired to a place of safety after lighting the fuse, which was probably slightly defective. [Inquest attended]
						1 name found

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