	Calder Colliery	Index	Calder Colliery

Calder Colliery

Location:	6½ miles [10 km] W of Wakefield
Map Ref:	(Sheet 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield) SE225199, 53° 40' 30" N, 1° 39' 30" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	No. 1 Pit
Owners:	Mirfield Coal Co.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1905 - Dayhole - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1915 - Calder - Coal: Gas, Household.
Employment:	1894 - 48 (45 below, 3 surface)
	1896 - 93 (61 below, 32 surface)
	1900 - 34 (31 below, 3 surface)
	1900 - 153 (126 below, 27 surface)
	1905 - 225 (189 below, 36 surface)
	1905 - Dayhole - 40 (36 below, 4 surface)
	1910 - 42 (31 below, 11 surface)
	1910 - 34 (33 below, 1 surface)
	1915 - Calder - 104 (80 below, 24 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Better Bed, Black Bed
	1915 - Calder - Black Bed
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!
	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Calder Colliery

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!

						Ashton, Henry, 15 Oct 1867, aged 22, Collier, Fall of stone
						Depledge, George, 09 Jul 1903, (accident: 04 Apr 1903), aged 46, Collier, Died 9th July. Explosion of gunpowder caused by a miner carelessly handling the explosive and a candle
						Durkin, C., 09 Aug 1897, 6.30 p.m., aged 29, Banksman, Explosion of gas in sinking shaft [More information ...]
						Haigh, Hope, 13 Jan 1904, aged 43, Haulage roadman, He was standing behind two horizontal haulage wheels, between the full and empty roads on the main rope plane, and, in a moment of forgetfulness he took hold of the incoming rope, and his hand was caught between it and the wheel; almost immediately he was caught on the middle of the body between the wheel and outgoing main rope and instantly killed
						Herran, M., 09 Aug 1897, 6.30 p.m., aged 42, Sinker, Explosion of gas in sinking shaft [More information ...]
						Laycock, Benjamin, 10 Mar 1860, Fall of roof in the mine
						Mawson, E., 09 Aug 1897, 6.30 p.m., aged 38, Sinker, Explosion of gas in sinking shaft [More information ...]
						Parkinson, W., 09 Dec 1896, aged 34, Sinker, Crushed between pumps and the side of sinking shaft in which they were being lowered
						Roberts, W., 15 Jan 1881, aged 55, Collier, Fall of roof
						Scott, Victor J., 06 Oct 1925, aged 33, Electrician, Drowned by walking into lodge
						Sunderland, Thomas, 19 Jan 1904, aged 52, Shot-firer, A shot charged with bobbinite and fired with a high tension battery in the ripping of a heading in the Shercliffe seam close to the shaft ignited some gas and killed the shot-firer and injured two other men [More information ...]
						Ward, John, 23 Apr 1927, aged 51, Underlooker, Caught by moving chain and dragged under pulley

						12 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.

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

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Credits

Sources:

1860 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire District, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by W. H. Pickering, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 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