	East Ardsley Colliery	Index	East Ardsley Colliery

East Ardsley Colliery

Location:	3½ miles [6 km] NNW of Wakefield
Map Ref:	(Sheet 104 Leeds and Bradford) SE305258, 53° 43' 41" N, 1° 32' 13" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	R. Holliday and Sons
	R. Holliday and Sons Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Doggy - Coal: Gas.
	1894 - Little - Coal: Household.
	1894 - Middleton Main - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Doggy - Coal: Gas.
	1896 - Little - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Middleton Main - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Doggy - Coal: Gas.
	1900 - Little - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Middleton Main - Coal: Household.
	1905 - Doggy - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1905 - Little - Coal: Gas, Household. Ironstone.
	1905 - Middleton Main - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1910 - Doggy - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1910 - Little - Coal: Gas, Household. Ironstone.
	1910 - Middleton Main - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1915 - Doggy - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1915 - Middleton Little - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1915 - Middleton Main - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. (112,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - Doggy - 51 (44 below, 7 surface)
	1894 - Little - 188 (165 below, 23 surface)
	1894 - Middleton Main - 287 (236 below, 51 surface)
	1896 - Doggy - 34 (28 below, 6 surface)
	1896 - Little - 207 (177 below, 30 surface)
	1896 - Middleton Main - 58
	1900 - Doggy - 30 (24 below, 6 surface)
	1900 - Little - 259 (217 below, 42 surface)
	1900 - Middleton Main - 299 (237 below, 62 surface)
	1905 - Doggy - 38 (32 below, 6 surface)
	1905 - Little - 198 (162 below, 36 surface)
	1905 - Middleton Main - 244 (190 below, 54 surface)
	1910 - Doggy - 19 (16 below, 3 surface)
	1910 - Little - 251 (206 below, 45 surface)
	1910 - Middleton Main - 283 (214 below, 69 surface)
	1915 - Doggy - 18
	1915 - Middleton Little - 343 (224 below, 119 surface)
	1915 - Middleton Main - 185
	1923 - 453 (336 below, 117 surface)
	1933 - 462 (371 below, 91 surface)
	1940 - 462 (371 below, 91 surface)
	1947 - 412 (325 below, 87 surface)
	1954 - 395 (302 below, 93 surface)
Seams Worked:	1915 - Doggy - Doggy
	1915 - Middleton Little - Middleton Little
	1915 - Middleton Main - Middleton Main
	1954 - Beeston, Eleven Yards, Flockton, Middleton Main
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

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!

						Andrews, W., 27 Jul 1888, Collier, Fall of roof
						Arundel, S., 09 Nov 1886, aged 44, Collier, Fall of roof
						Auty, Enoch, 05 May 1913, aged 62, Miner, After helping a lad out with a tub he was proceeding up the face to his work when a small stone burst off over a prop and struck his spine and fractured it
						Baines, Alfred, 10 Apr 1913, aged 28, Hurrier, Deceased was pushing a full tub, weighing about 10½ cwts., up a gradient of 1 in 16 preparatory to another man coupling it on to the run. Thinking it was coupled, he left off pushing, and the tub moved back about a foot and crushed his head against a bar some 8 inches above the top of the tub fracturing his skull
						Barraclough, F., 13 Aug 1885, Collier, Fall of roof
						Bedford, S., 22 Oct 1890, Fall of roof
						Blackey, Harry, 03 Jan 1919, aged 42, Shotfirer, He had just bored a shothole and taken out a prop with his pick when a stone fell from a slip and killed him
						Broadhead, Robert, 21 Dec 1851, Blow from the lever of a capstan, above ground
						Dearnley, A., 22 Oct 1896, aged 50, Collier, Fall of roof
						Edmundson, L., 11 Feb 1901, aged 85, Collier, Fall of shot shaken coal from the roof of an air-way which he was repairing
						Gibson, C., 27 Dec 1877, aged 35, Collier, Fall of roof
						Lambert, G., 16 Aug 1885, (accident: 04 Aug 1885), Collier, Explosion of gas. Died 16th Aug
						Lancaster, J., 05 May 1893, (accident: 01 May 1893), aged 54, Collier, Fall of roof. Died 5th
						Lee, J., 22 Mar 1893, aged 50, Collier, Injured by tubs
						Saville, E. S., 29 Sep 1887, (accident: 28 Sep 1887), aged 15, Hanger on, Crushed by cage. Died 29th Sept
						Scorah, Stenton, 19 Apr 1919, aged 16, Haulage hand, Attending electrically driven secondary haulier and could be put out of gear wheh empties were being lowered. He was using strap brake when lever kicked violently and struck his head and back of neck
						Walker, T., 03 Feb 1888, aged 60, Engineman, Suffocated in slack waggon
						Walker, W., 03 Sep 1903, aged 23, Collier, Fall of rock roof when repairing a roadway. Cause — bad judgment in drawing and setting timber
						Wrigley, James, 30 Apr 1883, (accident: 05 Apr 1883), aged 54, Collier, Fall of roof ; died 30th

						19 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1851 (Jul-Dec) Mines Inspectors Report, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines, published in 1854
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888-05
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
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by W. H. Pickering, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), York and Lincoln District (No. 5) by W. H. Pickering, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Yorkshire and North Midland Division (No. 3) by Thomas H. Mottram, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
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
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
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian