	Denby Hall Colliery	Index	Denby Hall Colliery

Denby Hall Colliery

Location:	Denby, Nr. Derby 8½ miles [13 km] NNE of Derby
Map Ref:	(Sheet 119 Buxton and Matlock) SK397483, 53° 1' 49" N, 1° 24' 29" W
Opened:
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1875
Owners:	Butterley Co.
	Butterley Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Coal: Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Industrial. (400,000 tons)
Employment:	1894 - 233 (194 below, 39 surface)
	1896 - 226 (187 below, 39 surface)
	1900 - 213 (176 below, 37 surface)
	1905 - 274 (230 below, 44 surface)
	1910 - 404 (331 below, 73 surface)
	1915 - 524 (411 below, 113 surface)
	1923 - 712 (545 below, 167 surface)
	1933 - 580 (462 below, 118 surface)
	1937 - 524 (415 below, 109 surface)
	1940 - 549 (381 below, 168 surface)
	1947 - 670 (466 below, 204 surface)
Seams Worked:	1894 - Kilburn
	1896 - Kilburn
	1900 - Kilburn
	1905 - Kilburn
	1910 - Kilburn, Tupton
	1915 - Deep Hard, Deep Soft, Kilburn, Tupton
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Denby Hall and Denby Drury Lowe, Denby, Nr. Derby: Denby Hall, sunk 1875, 272yds. deep; in January 1967 merged with Denby Drury Lowe, sunk 1839-50 to 346 yds. In 1966, about 930 men at Denby Hall produced 340,000 tons (Piper Seam) and 750 men at Drury Lowe nearly 320,000 tons (Alton. Belper Lawn). Output and manpower are being reduced in 1967.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in North Derbyshire, published April 1967

Disasters (5 or more killed)

9th

May

1951

Fall of roof, 5 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Armstrong, Joseph, 09 May 1951, aged 37, Fall of roof [More information ...]
						Bailey, Eric, 09 May 1951, aged 35, Fall of roof [More information ...]
						Bowmer, Roy, 09 May 1951, aged 23, Fall of roof [More information ...]
						Chamberlain, William, 09 May 1951, aged 48, Fall of roof [More information ...]
						Daykin, Joseph, 27 Sep 1892, aged 48, Onsetter, Deceased was running away making his escape from a train of runaway full tubs. He ran across the shaft bottom just as the descending cage was approaching when the cage struck and fatally injured him
						Garner, Herbert, 24 May 1902, (accident: 13 May 1902), aged 22, Loader, Deceased received a slight injury in the mine on 13th May, and died from pleurisy and pneumonia, not arising from any injury received in the mine [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]
						Hunt, Henry, 02 May 1891, (accident: 20 Mar 1891, 9.0 a.m.), aged 33, Collier, Fall of roof. The deceased sat resting when a quantity of roof fell upon him. Died 2nd May
						North, Benjamin, 08 Dec 1924, (accident: 17 Nov 1924, 9.15 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 37, Stallman, Deceased was in the act of getting room out for a benk bar when a saucer shaped stone weighing about 4 cwts. fell out of a "pot-hole" in the roof and fractured his right leg. Septicaemia set in from the wound sustained to his leg and he died three weeks later. He had got "catch props" set along the face ahead of him, but the edge of the stone, being just over the last benk bar he had set, reeled the latter out as it broke away
						Spencer, Alfred, 09 May 1951, aged 51, Fall of roof [More information ...]
						Walker, Abraham, 25 Apr 1905, (accident: 12 Apr 1904), aged 44, Dayman, He was injured by a fall of roof in the mine on 12th April, 1904, and died one year and 13 days later. No inquest was held [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

						10 names found

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Credits

Sources:

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
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Midland District (No. 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), Midland District (No. 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
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