	Grosmont (Ironstone)	Index	Grosmont (Ironstone)

Grosmont (Ironstone)

Location:	Grosmont 5½ miles [9 km] SW of Whitby
Map Ref:	(Sheet 94) NZ828054
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1880s - Bagnall & Co.
Output:	1865 - Ironstone.
	1873 - Ironstone.
	1882 - Ironstone.
	1883 - Ironstone.
	1884 - Ironstone.
	1888 - Ironstone.
	1890 - Ironstone.
Employment:	1883 - 263
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Grosmont (Ironstone)
Notes:	1886 - Abandoned
	1892 - Avicula, Picton seams abandoned

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!

						Agar, Francis Page, 03 Feb 1887, aged 42, Miner, returning to the place after a shot which had blown out some timber causing a fall of shale to take place from the roof upon them [More information ...]
						Breckon, Thomas, 03 Jan 1878, aged 35, Miner, the set took wrong way at points and crushed him against the wall
						Hardwick, Arthur, 03 Feb 1887, aged 14, Putter, returning to the place after a shot which had blown out some timber causing a fall of shale to take place from the roof upon them [More information ...]
						Harland, Robert, 09 Jul 1879, aged 19, Miner, fall of stone while passing the end of a place where another man was working near to roadway
						Stephenson, Robert, 14 Dec 1888, aged 65, Onsetter, crushed between tub and a prop near to the shaft bottom; he was caught while crossing the way in front of a putter

						5 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Grosmont (Ironstone)

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Grosmont (Ironstone)

Credits

Sources:

1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1879 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2604) Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1887 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5450) Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1888 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5779), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks