	Donnington Wood Colliery	Index	Donnington Wood Colliery

Donnington Wood Colliery

Location:	Wellington 14 miles [23 km] E of Shrewsbury
Map Ref:	(Sheet 127 Stafford and Telford) SJ713123, 52° 42' 29" N, 2° 25' 28" W
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Owners:	Lilleshall Company
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

11th

Sep

1875

Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire, 11 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Guy, Alfred, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Guy, David, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Guy, Edward, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Guy, Emmanuel, 11 Sep 1875, Fireman, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Guy, James, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Hayward, Charles, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Icke, Thomas, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Mannering, J., 25 Sep 1852, Explosion of firedamp [More information ...]
						Mannering, S., 25 Sep 1852, Explosion of firedamp [More information ...]
						Morgan, James, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Stanworth, James, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						Wagge, James, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]
						White, James, 11 Sep 1875, Suffocated by fumes from spontaneous fire in mine [More information ...]

						13 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1852 (Jul-Dec) Mines Inspectors Report, by Thomas Wynne, H.M. Inspector of Mines, published in 1854
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), North Staffordshire District by Thomas Wynne, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report