	Eskett Park (Iron Ore)	Index	Eskett Park (Iron Ore)

Eskett Park (Iron Ore)

Location:	Eskett
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Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1880s - Cammel & Co.
	1890s - Eskett Iron Ore Co. Ltd.
	1900s - Postlethwaite's Eskett Mining Co. Ltd.
Output:	1865 - Iron ore.
	1883 - Iron ore.
	1888 - Iron Ore.
	1890 - Iron Ore.
	1894 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1900 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1902 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
	1910 - Iron ore (red hematite).
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Eskett Park (Iron Ore)
Employment:	1890 - 0 [Not working]
	1894 - 108 (92 below, 16 surface)
	1896 - 110 (95 below, 15 surface)
	1900 - 0 [Standing]
	1902 - 0 [Standing]
	1910 - 0 [Not worked 1910]

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!

						Case, John, 11 Mar 1885, aged 47, died from his injuries after being hit by an explosion of shot
						Elms, Thomas, 29 Aug 1870, (accident: 23 Aug 1870), aged 20, Miner, a piece of metal fell from the roof upon him, inflicting such severe injuries to the spine that the poor fellow lingered on to the following Monday, when he finally succumbed
						Hall, Thomas, 08 Jun 1852, shaft rope broke and he fell to the bottom of the shaft
						Kelly, Hugh, 14 Nov 1865, aged 34, killed by a piece of metal falling upon him
						Kennedy, -, 26 Jan 1865, aged 35, killed by a fall of ore
						McAvoy, -, 23 Jul 1860, killed by a fall of roof
						Newton, William, 24 Sep 1868, aged 24, Miner, fell down the shaft [date of report]
						Quayle, John, 19 Feb 1875, (accident: 15 Feb 1875), aged 21, Miner, while descending the shaft in the dark, he slipprd off the cage before it had come to rest and fell away to the bottom, about 40 feet
						Watson, William, 03 Apr 1908, aged 51, Quarryman, in tipping his wheel-barrow into a railway waggon he overbalanced and fell off the waggon

						9 names found

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Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web page have been kindly provided by The West Cumbria Mines Research and are marked with .

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Newcastle-on-Tyne District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works