Healeyfield (Ganister)

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Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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	Healeyfield (Ganister)	Index	Healeyfield (Ganister)

Location:	Castleside
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd.
	1930s - W. & M. Howe
Output:	1921 - Ganister.
	1923 - Ganister.
	1924 - Ganister.
	1925 - Ganister.
	1927 - Ganister.
	1929 - Ganister.
	1930 - Ganister.
	1935 - Ganister.
	1936 - Ganister.
	1938 - Ganister.
Employment:	1921 - 22 (14 below, 8 surface)
	1923 - 36 (20 below, 16 surface)
	1924 - 19 (12 below, 7 surface)
	1925 - 10 (6 below, 4 surface)
	1927 - 16 (9 below, 7 surface)
	1929 - 21 (13 below, 8 surface)
	1930 - 27 (18 below, 9 surface)
	1935 - 26 (17 below, 9 surface) [Discontinued 29/11/35]
	1936 - 2
	1938 - 0 [Not worked since 1936]

None found.

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Bee, W. J., 08 Sep 1935, (accident: 15 May 1935), Labourer, died from a fall of stone

Robson, William Thomas, 14 Aug 1924, 3.55 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 26, Miner, Deceased, while working alone, appears to have been inserting the last cartridge, containing a No. 6 detonator with fuse attached, of a charge of gelignite into a hole made in a joint of the ganister seam, when the charge exploded prematurely. He was severely injured about the head and arm by debris projected from the shot. He died 1½ hours later and was unable to give any explanation as to the cause beforehand

2 names found

1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Northern Division (No. 2) by T. Greenland Davies, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1936 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1938 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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