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	Carlin How (Ironstone)	Index	Carlin How (Ironstone)

Location:	Loftus 13 miles [21 km] WNW of Whitby
Map Ref:	(Sheet 94) NZ710192
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1910s - Bell Brothers Ltd.
	1923, Apr - Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1873 - Ironstone.
	1882 - Ironstone.
	1883 - Ironstone.
	1884 - Ironstone.
	1888 - Ironstone.
	1890 - Ironstone.
	1894 - Ironstone.
	1896 - Ironstone.
	1900 - Ironstone.
	1902 - Ironstone.
	1905 - Ironstone.
	1910 - Ironstone.
	1921 - Ironstone.
	1923 - Ironstone.
	1924 - Ironstone.
Employment:	Year  Pit   Total  Below  Above 1883 164 164 1894 135 109 26 1896 146 116 30 1900 165 150 15 1902 209 194 15 1905 254 240 14 1910 272 249 23 1915 243 220 23 1921 218 190 28 1924 334 248 86
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Notes:	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Carlin How (Ironstone)

Description

The Cliff Mines were commenced by Bell Bros., Ltd., in 1860. The output for 1880 was 58,332 tons, but the ironstone here is now worked out. The same firm opened the Huntcliffe Mine adjacent, in 1871. It is worked by an adit drift, and the stone is won by hand mining; 100 hands are employed. Carlin How Mines, opened out by Bell Bros. in 1873, are within Mr. Wharton's royalty. The weekly output is about 3,000 tons, obtained wholly by hand mining. The number of hands employed is 150. Lumpsey Mines were commenced in 1882. The shafts are about 100 fathoms deep. Drilling machines, worked by hydraulic power, are used in winning part of the stone. About 3,000 tons per week are obtained, employing 140 men and boys.

Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890)

Lumpsey Mine consists of two pits namely, Lumpsey and Carlin How, the shafts being two miles apart. All stone is wound at the Lumpsey Shaft which has a depth of 570 feet. The Carlin How shafts now serve for winding men and material and for pumping. The Lumpsey mine winder is electrically driven by a 710-h.p. 2,750-volt slip-ring motor with Weir-type liquid controller, by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited. The drum is bi-cylindro-conical, 15 ft. and 10 ft. dia., the winding time being 25 secs. The equipment includes a "Whitmore" gear with King's slow banker. The headgear is 76 ft. high, and is of the steel joist and channel construction. Keps of the "Beien" type are fitted.

The fan is a Waddle single inlet, 144 in. dia., driven through a Hendry laminated belt by a 70/9 b.h.p. two-speed squirrel-cage pole-changing motor with autotransformer starting.

Iron & Coal Trades Review 1937

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!

						Bennison, Henry, 17 Aug 1940, aged 47, Deputy, fracture of the skull accidentally sustained as a result of a fall of stone, address: Hazelwood House, Jubilee Terrace, Staithes, Whitby [Inquest: 19 Aug 1940 & 23 Aug 1940], Buried: Hinderwell
						Blaylock, Septimus, 02 Feb 1902
						Blenkey, John, 19 Oct 1914, (accident: 16 Oct 1914), aged 62, Back-bye Trimmer, A split wall having holed into an old bord, the crossing had to be secured so that the next pillar could be split. The seam was 8 feet 6 inches thick, and the shale, about 4 feet thick, had fallen to a hard parting in the old bord. The side of the pillar was crushed, and some of the stone had to be dressed off. Deceased then commenced to cut a hole for a crossing balk, and while so engaged standing on the fallen shale, a large piece of shale fell away from close to the 4-foot parting on to his left leg, shattering it. He died from shock 3 days later.
						Hall, John, 29 Nov 1886, aged 57, Miner, Received an injury to leg while lifting a piece of stone into a tub died suddenly from brain affection. Accident not cause of death
						Hill, Isaac, 01 Feb 1898, (accident: 29 Jan 1898), aged 30, Miner, when charging a hole with powder he was pushing the third pellet with a brass stemmer, when the charge exploded, and this ignited the powder in his box, and he was so severely burnt about his face, chest, and arms, that he died on February 1st; he should have been using a wooden stemmer [More information ...]
						Robson, Robert, 31 Aug 1883, (accident: 07 Aug 1883), aged 27, Miner, so severely injured by an explosion of powder, while engaged, contrary to all rules, in drilling out a shot which had missed fire, that he died a fortnight after
						Rowe, Henry, 10 Jan 1897, (accident: 10 Dec 1896), aged 30, Miner, Leg broken by a fall of stone. He was wedging the stone at the time and it fell before he could get out of the way. Died January 10th, 1897, after the leg had been amputated
						Thursby, James, 02 May 1916, aged 41, killed by a fall of stone, address: Chapel Street, Brotton, Buried: St. Peter's Churchyard (Church Demolished)
						Whiley, Frederick, 29 Dec 1908, (accident: 22 Jun 1908), aged 14, Trapper, he was walking outbye behind a horse when it struck out kicking him on the head, fracturing his skull; he died on 29th December
						9 names found

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Credits

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Related Links:

	On this site
	Newspaper articles
	Article on the discovery of Ironstone in Cleveland (published in 1857)
	External sites
	Cleveland Ironstone Mines web site by Peter Tuffs

Further Reading:

• Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines by Peter Tuffs, Cleveland Ironstone Series, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Ironstone by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• The Coal Mining and Ironstone Mining Properties of Dorman Long, published by Peter Tuffs
• The Cleveland Ironstone Industry and its Impact on Teesside by S. Keith Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Ironstone Mines and Iron Industry by Richard Mead, published by Peter Tuffs
• Cleveland Mining Incidents by Simon Chapman, published by Peter Tuffs
• The Ironstone Mines and Railways of Cleveland and Rosedale by T.E. Rounthwaite, published by Peter Tuffs

Further Research:

  Research Notes for Carlin How (Ironstone)