	Coombs Wood Colliery	Index	Coombs Wood Colliery

Coombs Wood Colliery

Location:	Halesowen 6½ miles [10 km] WSW of Birmingham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 139 Birmingham and Wolverhampton) SO971844, 52° 27' 26" N, 2° 2' 34" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Coombs Wood Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Employment:	1923 - 438 (320 below, 118 surface)
	1933 - 290 (200 below, 90 surface)
	1937 - 290 (200 below, 90 surface)
	1940 - 290 (200 below, 90 surface)
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

18th

Mar

1929

Underground fire, 'damp' sheet in the Manor Road ignited by candle or cigarette, 8 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Barnsley, Edwin, 18 Mar 1929, aged 61 [More information ...]
						Chance, Joseph, 18 Mar 1929, aged 66 [More information ...]
						Dukes, Edwin Walter, 18 Mar 1929, aged 27 [More information ...]
						Edwards, Harry, 18 Mar 1929, aged 44 [More information ...]
						Hargreaves, John, 18 Mar 1929, aged 32 [More information ...]
						Harris, James, 18 Mar 1929, aged 58 [More information ...]
						Parkes, George Henry, 18 Mar 1929, aged 45 [More information ...]
						Westwood, John, 18 Mar 1929, aged 48 [More information ...]

						8 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Coombs Wood Colliery

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
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