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Clipstone Colliery
| Location: |
Clipstone, nr. Mansfield
15 miles [24 km] N of Nottingham
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 120 Mansfield and Worksop) SK597633, 53° 9' 47" N, 1° 6' 25" W |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
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| Sinking Started: |
1920-22 |
| Owners: |
Bolsover Colliery Co., Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing. (719,600 tons) |
| Employment: |
1923 - 395 |
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1933 - 1,524 (1,244 below, 280 surface) |
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1937 - 1,159 (887 below, 272 surface) |
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1940 - 1,182 (906 below, 276 surface) |
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1947 - 1,183 (885 below, 298 surface) |
| Notes: |
Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
Description
Clipstone, Nr. Mansfield : Sunk 1920-22, recent £3 million reorganisation; has two of tallest winding structures (214 ft.) and two of deepest shafts (1,006 yds.) in country; 1,400 men produce over 1,000,000 tons from Low Main.
NCB Leaflet: Coal in North Nottinghamshire, published April 1967
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!
| | |  | | | | Barks, John, 27 Feb 1925, aged 60, Surface accident: buried in a trench collapse |
| | |  | | | | Baxter, David, 20 Jul 1933, aged 48, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Boocock, Samuel, 09 Jan 1927, aged 24, Fall in a roadway |
| | |  | | | | Bramley, Frederick, 02 Mar 1929, aged 19, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Bromley, Frederick, 03 May 1929, aged 19, Fall in a roadway |
| | |  | | | | Brown, Frederick, 06 Feb 1929, (accident: 15 Jan 1929), aged 30, Crushed by the cage |
| | |  | | | | Butler, Frank, 07 May 1936, (accident: 19 Mar 1936), aged 33, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Camm, Harold, 29 Nov 1929, aged 28, Surface accident: caught in machinery |
| | |  | | | | Cavill, George Thomas, 29 Aug 1923, aged 15, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Denman, Harry, 30 Sep 1924, 10.0 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 46, Contractor, Deceased was in the act of cutting down ripping at the gate-lip when the front of the lip gave way, and he sustained a blow in the small of his back from a stone weighing about 3 cwts., causing his spine to be fractured. He was standing on a log of wood at the time, and it is probable he slipped and fell forward in attempting to get clear of the stone he was in the act of getting down |
| | |  | | | | Drake, Charles, 06 Jun 1939, aged 32, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Drew, Leonard, 08 Nov 1927, aged 17, Run over by tubs |
| | |  | | | | Dunn, John James, 18 Mar 1932, aged 33, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Ford, John, 09 Oct 1946, aged 53, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Gibbs, Albert, 24 Mar 1937, aged 44, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Harris, Thomas, 09 Jan 1930, aged 27, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Hill, William Henry, 27 May 1934, aged 33, Electrocuted |
| | |  | | | | Hodge, Harry Orlando, 23 May 1933, aged 23, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Hunt, John William, 23 Mar 1931, aged 40, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Jackson, Ernest, 10 Feb 1931, (accident: 31 Jan 1931), aged 31, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Machin, Byron, 10 May 1941, (accident: 20 Apr 1941), aged 17, Hand injury, death from Meningitis |
| | |  | | | | Marshall, Harry, 18 Nov 1943, aged 44, Surface accident: fell from a pylon on the surface dirt tips |
| | |  | | | | Millibrand, John William G., 20 Sep 1931, aged 22, Surface accident: crushed by wagons |
| | |  | | | | Morgan, Harry, 28 May 1941, aged 16, Crushed by tubs |
| | |  | | | | Moss, David, 17 Dec 1940, aged 41, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Roberts, Harry, 10 Feb 1931, (accident: 31 Jan 1931), aged 43, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Robinson, George Edward, 03 Sep 1942, aged 32, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Rowley, Howard, 10 Feb 1937, (accident: 14 Dec 1936), aged 24, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Ruston, George Baden, 14 Feb 1941, aged 34, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Seiles, John Robert, 18 Sep 1925, aged 29, Pressure hose burst on a coal cutter |
| | |  | | | | Shaw, Thomas Walter, 16 Oct 1926, aged 42, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Smith, Richard, 29 Jun 1930, (accident: 18 May 1930), aged 26, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Stancer, John, 19 Nov 1931, aged 23, Killed by a fall of coal |
| | |  | | | | Thompson, Edward Henry, 29 Jan 1927, aged 36, Killed by a fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Wass, Walter, 23 Jun 1942, aged 43, Killed by a fall of coal |
| | |  | | | | Welch, Francis William, 01 Dec 1938, aged 42, Killed by a fall of roof |
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36 names found |
If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please
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Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
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Gallery Images:
Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, North Midland Division (No. 4) by J. R. Felton, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
- 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
- 1937 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
- 1940 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
- 1947 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
- OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website
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