Garrigill (Lead Ore)
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Nenthead
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| Owners: |
1800s - London Lead Co. |
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1880s - Nenthead & Tynedale Lead Co. |
| Output: |
1882 - Lead Ore. |
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1883 - Lead ore. |
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1888 - Lead Ore, Zinc Ore. |
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1890 - Lead Ore, Zinc Ore. |
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 Detailed Mineral Statistics for Garrigill (Lead Ore) |
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Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Garrigill (Lead Ore) |
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!
| | |  | |  | | Hornsby, Joseph, 06 Apr 1841, aged 26, having prepared for blasting the wall, retired about 50 yards from the workings, the explosion caused a large stone to be shot along the drift which hit deceased on the head, and fractured his skull |
| | | | | | | Slack, William, 05 Apr 1875, killed by a fall of roof |
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2 names found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
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Credits
Sources:
- 1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
- 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
- Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works
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