Glapwell Colliery

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Alexander, Edward, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Anthony, Samuel, 31 Mar 1892, aged 19, Loader, Seized by a fit while waiting on the pit bank to descend and died after remaining unconscious for about and hour and a half. No accident or injury to the deceased and no inquest held

Ashmore, Arthur, 10 Jan 1919, aged 39, Stallman, He and another were ripping a gate and had set a catch prop when there was fall and he was struck by stone and fatally injured

Ashmore, Frederick, 31 Jul 1897, aged 35, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased stood watching his loader withdraw a prop from the goaf by means of the ringer and chain. Directly the prop was loose the roof gave way and pushed out three props causing the roof to fall and strike deceased. He died the same day

Ashmore, William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Atkin, Richard, 26 Oct 1908, aged 27, Dayman, Fall of roof. The stallman was dressing up the ripping lip at the gate end after a shot had been fired, and told deceased to re-set a prop which had been pushed out. A fall occurred, and killed him (Top Hard Coal seam)

Ayre, Griffen, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Baines, Benjamin, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Baker, George William, 17 Sep 1908, aged 19, Loader, Fall of roof. Deceased was assisting a stallman to build a pack in the stall, when a "bump" caused a heavy fall of roof which killed the deceased and pushed out several props which had been set there (Top Hard Coal seam)

Ball, Emanuel, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Ball, Thomas, 10 Sep 1894, aged 30, Stallman, Fall of coal. Deceased was holing when the coal burst over the sprags and fell upon him. He died the same day

Barnett, Joseph, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Baynes, William, 22 Nov 1897, aged 51, Dataller, Fall of roof. Deceased knocked a prop out from under a bar at the side of the main road when the roof fell and killed him. If he had used a ringer and chain as required by the rules of the mine, it is probable that his life would not have been lost

Bennett, David, 28 Sep 1944, aged 47, Borer, hit by a run away tub, address: 86 St. John's Road, Newbold Moor, Chesterfield

Bingley, Percy, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Blundell, Elijah, 29 Jun 1888, aged 23, Loader, He and another man were bringing a loaded tub down a steep part of the stall, it overpowered them and running away knocked out a prop and bar causing the roof to fall on him

Boam, Thomas Edward, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Booth, John Thompson, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Brailsford, Samuel, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Breedon, T., 20 Jul 1936, Miner, he was fatally injured in a shotfiring accident

Breslin, John, 11 Dec 1924, 1.15 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 33, Sinker, Deceased was working in a stone drift and stooping down attaching the air hose to a rock drill, while his mate was using another drill, when a large stone rolled off the face and struck him, injuring him so severely that he died on the way to hospital. The stone had evidently been shaken by the previous round of shots and the vibration of the drill determined its fall. Both the deputy and the deceased man had previously tested the face and considered it strong

Brooks, George, 1963, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Burton, Derek, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Chapman, Arthur, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Chapman, Frank, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Chappel, John, 03 Feb 1891, (accident: 02 Feb 1891, 10.30 a.m.), aged 35, Stallman, Fall of roof. Engaged in setting timber near a fault slip when the roof fell upon him. Died 3rd February

Columbine, John, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Comins, Stanley, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Cooper, Frank, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Cousins, John, 17 Dec 1909, aged 41, Deputy, Two shots had been fired by the deceased deputy in the ripping lip, and he and the contractor were getting down the shaken stone. A large piece of stone appeared to be insecure, and both men tried for some time to get it down but did not succeed. They then decided to set a prop under it, and were doing so, when the piece of stone fell, bringing others with it, and both men were killed instantly (Top Hard Coal seam) [More information ...]

Cronan, Michael, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Cummings, William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Curtin, Mathew, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Daines, Frederick, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Davies, John, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Denall, William, 09 Jan 1915, aged 47, Dataller, Guarding approach of two shots that were to be fired. They were fired with an 8min gap and he came from refuge hole and was killed by second shot

Dickinson, Harold, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Diffley, Thomas, 31 Jan 1896, (accident: 31 Dec 1895), aged 62, Stallman, Deceased died from "heart disease" and "chronic bronchitis." He was reported to have had a slight accident on 31st December 1895. No inquest was held [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]

Dooker, Anthony, 10 May 1924, 9.0 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 55, Stallman, Deceased was coal getting at the loose end of the stall when a fall of roof occurred in the goaf which spread along two induced fractures between the goaf timber and came up to the face. He was partly buried and was dead when liberated. The roof is a strong bind but the direction of the two weight breaks had been overlooked. They were breaks from an old line of face workings which had been worked at right angles to the stall

Elliott, Arthur Jackson, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Evans, Harold, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Evans, John Thomas, 06 Feb 1895, aged 14, Bank boy, Deceased was standing in a hopper levelling the slack when a man opened the bottom door and the boy slipped down with the slack and was suffocated

Evans, Stanley, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Evans, William, 21 Apr 1891, (accident: 15 Apr 1891, 11.30 a.m.), aged 17, Incline boy, Crushed between loaded tubs whilst attaching a tub to the endless rope. Died 21st April

Evans, William, 13 Feb 1893, aged 45, Dataler, Fall of roof. The deceased was in charge repairing a roadway and had taken out one bar when a large fall of roof took place driving out two other bars

Fawberry, Asa, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Fidler, Thomas, 15 May 1902, aged 28, Engine-man, Deceased was an electrician in charge of the machinery driven by electricity, and by some means his hand got into the fuze-wires which connect the switch-boxes, and he was electrocuted (Top hard coal)

Fieldsend, Pharoah, 14 Dec 1897, aged 38, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased and another man were removing slack from the floor for the purpose of setting timber under the roof and between two slips when the roof fell and fatally injured the deceased. He died the same day. The other man was seriously injured

Foster, Frederick, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

France, Henry, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Gardner, Frank, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Gibson, James Edward, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Godfrey, Henry, 24 Feb 1902, aged 36, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased was working coal from under a "roll" or false bedding of the roof when the "roll" broke across the centre, pushing the coal from the face, knocking out a prop set to support it and killing the deceased (Top hard coal)

Hall, Ernest Henry, 19 Oct 1909, (accident: 08 Oct 1909), aged 13, Horse-driver, Deceased was bringing his horse from the workings to the stables at the end of the shift, when the horse kicked him, causing a fractured skull from which he died on 19th October. Notices posted in the mine state that drivers must lead the horses to and from the stables (Top Hard Coal seam)

Hall, Wilfred Henry, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Hallett, Milton, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Harston, George, 10 Jul 1912, aged 51, Stallman, He was killed by a fall of 3 tons of rock from the ripping lip, which occurred as he was coming out of the stall at the end of the shift. The fall ran out three props and disclosed a joint, and a weight break

Harston, Melville Vernon, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Haslam, Mark, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Haywood, Wilfred, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Heeley, Robert, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Hill, George, 03 Mar 1899, aged 13, Horse driver, Fall of roof. Repairs were being done in a travelling road by pulling down a portion of the roof. Deceased was standing behind the workmen in what was considered a safe place. The vibration of hammering down a piece of stone caused other parts of the roof to fall, part of which struck the deceased and killed him (Top hard coal)

Hobson, Herbert, 23 Jul 1896, aged 14, Horse driver, Deceased was driving a horse drawing 10 full trams of coal. Part of the train became detached by the breaking of a pin. Deceased appears to have been trying to stop the horse when he fell under the trams and was crushed

Hollingsworth, Richard William, 27 Apr 1888, aged 27, Banksman, Engaged in greasing the winding rope and was standing upon planks over the shaft while the engineman drew the cage up to the planks and upset him down the shaft

Holmes, Anthony, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Holmes, George Albert, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Holmes, Samuel, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Holmes, William Arthur, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Howarth, Llewellyn, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Hursthouse, Louis F., , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Hurt, George, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Ison, Arthur, 11 Nov 1884, aged 16, Onsetter, Engineman supposed to have gone on without receiving the signal. Deceased pushing water tub on the cage [More information ...]

Ison, Herbert, 12 Mar 1907, (accident: 23 Feb 1907), aged 35, Haulage Contractor, Fall of roof. A large stone became detached from the roof over a haulage wheel, and canting over the frame of the wheel fell upon the legs of deceased. He died 12th March (Top hard coal)

Ison, Thomas, 06 Jun 1887, aged 62, Dataler, Taking out timber to repair a roadway a bar struck him and killed him instantly

Kelly, James, 19 Mar 1924, 4.15 p.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 27, Stallman, Deceased was in the act of withdrawing a prop out of the waste by means of a ringer and chain. He appears to have gone to the prop for some purpose or other, probably either to loosen the lid or to adjust the ringer chain, when a stone weighing about 35 cwts. fell away, reeling out the prop and burying him. The fall revealed the presence of a slip running across the waste, meeting a false parting in the roof, commencing at nothing and thickening to 1 ft. 6 in. where it met the slip

Kemp, Edward, 18 Sep 1931, aged 18, Haulage Hand, Accidental death after being trapped by the pit cage

Lakin, William, 30 Oct 1902, aged 24, Loader, Fall of coal in the end of a heading which knocked out a prop set to support the roof. The falling prop struck deceased and killed him (Top hard coal)

Layton, Samuel, 22 Jan 1900, aged 49, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased was at work getting down the roof at the gate-lip, in which a shot had been fired some days previously. The broken stone gave way and fell upon him (Top hard coal)

Lee, Frank, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Lee, William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Lilley, Alfred, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Lilley, William Thomas, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Lilliman, Frederick, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Litchfield, Thomas, 14 Nov 1908, (accident: 09 Nov 1908), aged 24, Stallman, Deceased was withdrawing a prop from the goaf when the prop gave way and a large stone fell and fatally injured him. He died 14th November (Top Hard Coal seam)

Littlewood, Arthur N., , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Lowbridge, Arthur Edgar, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Marsden, Graham, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Marshall, T. W. B., 10 Sep 1935, Miner, fall of roof

Martin, Thomas, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Maskery, John Cyril, 28 Jul 1914, aged 15, Rope lad, He was walking along an endless rope haulage road which was level at this point, the speed of the rope being 2½ miles an hour. He met an empty set of five tubs which got off the way a few yards in front of him and he ran forward to get behind it. The front tub sided over and he was crushed by it against the pack

Mason, Albert William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Mason, Richard, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Mitchel, William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Moseley, Harry Palmer, 06 Feb 1907, (accident: 04 Feb 1907), aged 36, Loader, Fall of roof. A large piece of rock partly in the goaf and partly in the stall, fell and knocked the props out, one of which struck the deceased. He died 6th February (Top hard coal)

Mosely, Alfred, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Mullins, Thomas Henry, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Nicholas, Phillip, 11 Jun 1889, aged 51, Stallman, Fall of coal

Oakley, William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Orwin, George, 17 Feb 1899, aged 32, Dataller, Fall of roof while deceased was preparing to take down the roof of a low place in the main roadway of the mine (Top hard coal)

Osbourne, William Harold, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Parkin, Lloyd, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Parry, Harold, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Pegg, Thomas, 11 Jul 1907, aged 39, Onsetter, Deceased appears to have been cleaning the sump-boards while the cages were running, when something fell down the shaft and struck him on the back of the head, killing him instantly

Pendriesh, Ralph, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Philpot, Samuel, 11 Jun 1897, (accident: 14 Jan 1897), aged 38, Loader, Fall of roof. The deceased stood watching the stallman get down the coal. When the coal fell a large piece of the roof came with it and struck the deceased. He died 11th June

Platts, Ernest, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Platts, George, 06 Nov 1902, (accident: 27 Oct 1902), aged 32, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased was preparing to blast down the ripping at a gate-end, and was cutting the top of a prop to set it loose, when a piece of stone fell and fatally injured him. He died 6th November (Top hard coal)

Price, John Edward, 17 Dec 1909, Ripping Contractor, Two shots had been fired by the deceased deputy in the ripping lip, and he and the contractor were getting down the shaken stone. A large piece of stone appeared to be insecure, and both men tried for some time to get it down but did not succeed. They then decided to set a prop under it, and were doing so, when the piece of stone fell, bringing others with it, and both men were killed instantly (Top Hard Coal seam) [More information ...]

Rawson, John, 04 Nov 1909, aged 16, Horse-driver, Deceased was in charge of a horse and four full tubs on a level roadway which is laid with a double set of rails. He was found dead under the front of the second tub. His lamp and whip were on the full road and appeared to indicate that deceased was riding, contrary to rule, and fell off (Top Hard Coal seam)

Raynes, Alan, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Revill, Robert, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Rhodes, John Henry, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Rich, Albert, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Richards, Harry, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Richards, James Joseph, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Rimmington, George, 08 Aug 1906, aged 46, Deputy, Deceased was walking up an endless-rope roadway on the full road side, when a train of seven full tubs broke away from the clip and ran over him. He died the same day (Top hard coal)

Rimmington, George, , aged 35, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Roberts, Geoffrey, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Robinson, George, 23 Oct 1924, 10.10 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 37, Stallman, Deceased had been getting ripping down at the gate end where a shot had been fired on the previous shift, and he was in the act of moving the stone away when a flat stone, weighing about 12 cwts., fell from the roof, caught him a blow on his right shoulder and knocked him with considerable force against the pack wall. He sustained a fracture of the base of the skull and died within a few minutes. The stone came away from a slip meeting two face breaks, and from a false bedding plane in the roof, neither of which could be seen before the fall

Sargeson, Joseph, 23 Jan 1911, aged 41, Onsetter, While stepping on to the cage at the pit bottom to release a full tub which had become derailed, he was struck on the head and killed by a piece of coal which fell from a tub on the top cage. The clearance between the cage and the fencing placed at the bottom to protect the men working there from falling coal, etc. was only about 5 inches

Schofield, Thomas, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Sharp, George, 18 Jul 1912, aged 16, Driver, Deceased was travelling out at the end of his shift when he fell and broke a glass bottle inside his shirt, receiving a mortal wound in the abdomen from the broken glass

Shelton, George W., 22 Jun 1915, aged 16, Drawer, Assisting two byemen to retimber a haulage road at a point 450 yards from face when there was sudden bump and side fell

Shipson, James, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Shooter, John, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Sirdifield, Richard Francis, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Smith, Henry, 21 Dec 1887, aged 42, Collier, Fall of roof

Smith, James, 28 Nov 1899, aged 31, Dayman, Fall of roof. Deceased and the stallman were starting to remove the rock which had been got down from the gatend lip, and before they began a safety prop was set. A further fall occurred, fatally injuring deceased and injuring the stallman (Top hard coal)

Spencer, John, 29 Jul 1909, aged 43, Dayman, Deceased was standing in the stall talking to the head stallman when a fall of roof pushed a prop out and fell on to deceased. The fall broke off at several other props and bars which had been set up to support the roof (Top Hard Coal seam)

Stanley, Charles, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Storey, Joseph, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Sutton, Samuel, 27 Sep 1890, aged 14, Driver, Crushed between the side of a tub and a prop. Supposed to have been kneeling down to do something when the tub caught his head and jammed it against the prop

Thomas, James, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Thompson, John Thomas, 03 Jun 1924, (accident: 22 Feb 1924, 10.0 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 48, Stallman, Deceased sustained fractures to three left ribs and to several of the lumbar transverse vertebrae from a fall of roof at the coal face which caught him a glancing blow across his back and knocked him clear. He died about three months later, and a post-mortem examination proved that he had died from "Syncope, due to fatty degeneration of the heart walls." It was found that the fractures were soundly healed, but the doctor gave it as his opinion that the shock and pain consequent upon the accident had accelerated deceased's death on 3rd June, 1924

Thompson, Joseph, 08 Sep 1914, aged 38, Stallman, He was building the corner wood pack of a new gate when a piece of rock roof weighing 8 cwts. fell on his back and fractured his spine. The ripping had been blown down in advance of the pack and it is thought that the shots had shaken the stone, although the deputy and deceased failed to detect any weakness

Tomlinson, Geoffrey J., , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Turner, Arthur, 24 Jan 1910, aged 21, Assistant Weighman, He was between some full wagons when other full wagons that were being lowered went too far, and bumped into those near deceased. The weather was very bad owing to snow and wind. The snow allowed the wagons to run further than was intended, and the high wind prevented deceased from hearing them approach

Turner, George C., , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Turner, Mathew, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Turner, Matthew, 21 Aug 1898, aged 27, Dataller, Fall of roof. Deceased was passing up an incline behind a train of watertubs, when a bar was pushed out, liberating a piece of rock roof, which fell upon him (Top hard coal seam)

Turner, William, 22 Apr 1903, (accident: 31 Mar 1903), aged 27, Dataller, He was struck by a piece of hard material, probably coal, which fell down the shaft and struck him at the time he was getting off the cage at the pit bottom. He died on 22nd April

Twelves, George, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Vann, John, 05 Feb 1908, aged 51, Roadman, Deceased was crushed by the endless haulage rope running round a tension wheel and in the tension hole. He had probably gone in for the purpose of tightening the tension wheel which he was authorised to do (Top Hard Coal seam)

Wakelam, Herbert Stephen, 01 Dec 1924, 12.55 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 23, Stallman, Deceased was in the act of breaking up a stone on the floor for packing purposes, when a fall of roof occurred, and a cone shaped stone weighing about 30 cwts. fell out from between two weight breaks joined at one end by a cross weight break, the stone feathering out at the edge of the waste pack. The stone caught him a severe blow on his head and knocked him with great force against a face prop, causing a fracture of the base of the skull and internal haemorrhage due to a punctured right lung, from which injuries he died shortly afterwards. The stone broke a benk bar and reeled out one of its props, and also uncapped a second bar and forced its face end off the prop

Walton, Arhur, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Wardle, Edwin Henry, 02 Feb 1903, (accident: 26 Jan 1903), aged 17, Horse-driver, He received what appeared to be a slight injury by being crushed between a horse and a tub. He died on 2nd February from injury to the brain (Top hard coal seam)

Watts, Daniel, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Webster, Joseph, 25 Jan 1904, aged 41, Stallman, Fall of roof. Deceased set a centre prop to support the roof of his working place, when a bump came over the stall causing a large mass of roof to fall and kill him (Top hard coal)

Whalley, Alan, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

White, Alfred Frederick, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Woodward, Samuel, 12 Jul 1897, (accident: 10 Jun 1897), aged 35, Loader, Deceased was walking up the engine plane to have his lamp lighted when he was struck by empty trams that had run away the top of the engine plane. Died 12th July

Wooland, John William, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Wright, Cyril, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

Wright, Herbert, 11 Sep 1906, aged 53, Dataller, Fall of roof. He was putting up a bar in a roadway for the purpose of carrying a brattice cloth, when a fall of roof killed him (Top hard coal)

Wright, Stephen Thomas, , [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]