	Firbeck Main Colliery	Index	Firbeck Main Colliery

Firbeck Main Colliery

Location:	Langold, Nr. Worksop 11 miles [17 km] S of Doncaster
Map Ref:	(Sheet 111 Sheffield and Doncaster, 120 Mansfield and Worksop) SK582860, 53° 22' 3" N, 1° 7' 30" W
Opened:
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1925
Owners:	Firbeck Main Collieries Ltd.
	Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1954 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1933 - 2,330 (2,000 below, 330 surface)
	1940 - 1,900 (1,500 below, 400 surface)
	1947 - 1,900 (1,500 below, 400 surface)
	1954 - 1,799 (1,445 below, 354 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Barnsley Bed
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Firbeck, Langold, Nr. Worksop: Sunk 1925, is 856 yds. dp.; 1,500 men prod. 418,000 tons from Barnsley seam.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in South Yorkshire, published May 1967

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!

						Amos, Bernard Leslie, 29 Aug 1953, aged 16, Crushed by a manrider
						Arthur, Lawrence, 30 Jan 1940, aged 49, Killed by a fall of roof
						Barlow, Harry, 09 Sep 1949, aged 48, Killed by a fall of roof
						Bingham, George, 22 Apr 1933, (accident: 13 Apr 1933), aged 52, Injured hand ; died from gangrene
						Booth, Joseph, 05 Sep 1930, (accident: 04 Sep 1930), aged 49, Killed by a fall of roof
						Boulding, William, 23 Sep 1951, (accident: 17 Aug 1951), aged 25, Hit by a bar
						Bowker, William Henry, 17 Dec 1955, aged 43, Killed by a fall of roof
						Brewin, William Balm, 01 Apr 1936, (accident: 1924), aged 56, Died from a Septic Carbuncle
						Brooks, John Edward, 13 Oct 1948, aged 55, Surface accident: fell from the washery
						Chambers, James William, 14 Oct 1932, aged 20, Run over by tubs
						Chandler, Willis, 27 Jan 1926, (accident: 21 Jan 1926), aged 15, Crushed by the cage
						Cocking, William, 30 Sep 1934, (accident: 12 Jun 1934), aged 24, Killed by a fall of roof
						Cook, Frederick, 09 Aug 1934, aged 23, Pony Driver, silicosis
						Cowgill, Leslie, 04 Jul 1939, aged 27, Killed by a fall of roof
						Cox, Harold, 17 Aug 1941, (accident: 25 Jul 1941), aged 30, Killed by a fall of roof
						Daniel, John Edward, 12 Jul 1946, aged 52, Killed by a fall of roof
						Edson, John Thomas, 27 Jul 1928, (accident: 17 Jul 1928), aged 24, Killed by a fall of roof
						Gibb, Archibald, Mar 1967, aged 23, Killed by a fall of roof
						Gouldin, James Royles, 23 May 1955, aged 42, Killed by a fall of roof
						Greaves, David, 24 May 1940, aged 42, Killed by a fall of coal
						Greaves, John, 20 Aug 1941, aged 39, Killed by a fall of roof
						Hague, George, 23 Jan 1941, aged 56, Run over by tubs
						Hazelhurst, John, 16 Aug 1950, (accident: 04 Jul 1945), aged 58, Killed by a fall of roof
						Heape, John Thomas Richard, 21 Oct 1941, (accident: 20 Oct 1941), aged 16, Run over by tubs
						Heldreth, William Jackson T., 15 Mar 1937, aged 46, Caught in machinery
						Higginbottom, Ernest, 25 Nov 1940, aged 49, Burnt and scalded in the boiler house
						Higginbottom, Leonard, 30 Nov 1940, (accident: 25 Nov 1940), aged 28, Burnt and scalded in the boiler house
						Holmes, David, 11 Dec 1933, aged 65, Caught in a conveyor
						Hudson, Thomas, 05 Jun 1936, aged 51, Killed by a fall of roof
						Hughes, Ernest, 07 Jan 1941, (accident: 25 Nov 1940), aged 26, Burnt and scalded in the boiler house
						Hurrell, Frederick Reuben, 09 Dec 1938, aged 37, Killed by a fall of roof
						Jackson, John Edward, 22 Aug 1929, aged 16, Crushed by tubs
						Johnson, Harry, 24 May 1928, aged 26, Fell down the shaft
						Jones, Tom Howell, 19 Feb 1944, aged 34, Surface accident: caught in machinery
						Lee, Robert, 09 Nov 1955, aged 34, Killed by a fall of roof
						Lomas, James, 29 Apr 1934, aged 31, Killed by a fall of roof
						Mann, William Henry, 29 Nov 1955, (accident: Jun 1955), aged 62, Strained lifting tubs
						Markham, John Claxton, 22 Sep 1935, (accident: 14 Sep 1935), aged 61, Surface accident: burnt in the boiler house
						McCarron, James Robson, 10 Jun 1940, aged 27, Killed by a fall of roof
						Moore, William, 06 Sep 1948, aged 56, Injured pushing tubs
						Parry, James Henry, 07 May 1950, aged 35, Killed by a fall of roof
						Pickford, Llewellyn, 04 Mar 1939, (accident: 28 Feb 1939), aged 35, Caught in machinery
						Potter, Richard, 17 Oct 1945, (accident: 05 Oct 1945), aged 32, Killed by a fall of coal
						Roberts, Arthur Gibson, 12 Jul 1952, aged 46, Killed by a fall of roof
						Roe, Amos, 16 Jan 1948, aged 55, Killed by a fall of roof
						Rogers, Frederick, 30 Dec 1934, (accident: 27 Dec 1934), aged 48, Killed by a fall of roof
						Slater, Joseph Potter, 02 Jan 1959, (accident: 19 Jun 1935), aged 76, Killed by a fall of roof
						Smith, James, 02 Jan 1957, aged 64, Run over by tubs
						Smith, John Albert, 21 Apr 1950, aged 44, Hit by a prop
						Smith, John Lawrence, 01 Feb 1944, aged 65, Crushed by tubs
						Spencer, George Frederick, 15 Nov 1955, aged 60, Crushed by tubs
						Stancil, William Horace, 24 Dec 1937, (accident: 22 Dec 1937), aged 19, Run over by tubs
						Swindell, Frederick, 01 Oct 1937, aged 56, Killed by a fall of roof
						Swindell, Frederick Victor, 22 Apr 1943, aged 35, Killed by a fall of roof
						Thircle, Thomas Henry, 15 Dec 1942, aged 14, Surface accident: fell into the slack bunker
						Thompson, Alwn Eli, 04 Nov 1964, aged 35, Killed by a fall of roof
						Vaughan, Cecil Charles, 14 Dec 1925, (accident: 09 Dec 1925), aged 25, Crushed by tubs
						White, Clarence, 12 Dec 1934, aged 34, Killed by a fall of roof
						Wilkinson, George, 09 Aug 1928, aged 25, Killed by a fall of roof
						Williamson, Francis Somme, 22 Sep 1932, aged 16, Run over by tubs
						Woodward, John George, 08 Oct 1937, aged 47, Killed by a fall of roof
						Wright, Harold Anthony, 27 Sep 1955, aged 24, Killed by a fall of coal

						62 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

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Credits

Sources:

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