	Huntcliffe (Ironstone)	Index	Huntcliffe (Ironstone)

Huntcliffe (Ironstone)

Location:	Saltburn 14 miles [22 km] E of Middlesbrough
Map Ref:	(Sheet 94) NZ697215
Opened:
Closed:	22 Sep 1906
Owners:	1890s - Bell Brothers Ltd.
Output:	1873 - Ironstone.
	1882 - Ironstone.
	1883 - Ironstone.
	1884 - Ironstone.
	1888 - Ironstone.
	1890 - Ironstone.
	1894 - Ironstone.
	1896 - Ironstone.
	1900 - Ironstone.
	1902 - Ironstone.
	1905 - Ironstone.
Employment:	1883 - 199
	1894 - 121 (102 below, 19 surface)
	1896 - 109 (88 below, 21 surface)
	1900 - 117 (91 below, 26 surface)
	1902 - 108 (70 below, 38 surface)
	1905 - 54 (38 below, 16 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Huntcliffe (Ironstone)
Notes:	1906 - Mineral exhausted

Description

The Cliff Mines were commenced by Bell Bros., Ltd., in 1860. The output for 1880 was 58,332 tons, but the ironstone here is now worked out. The same firm opened the Huntcliffe Mine adjacent, in 1871. It is worked by an adit drift, and the stone is won by hand mining; 100 hands are employed. Carlin How Mines, opened out by Bell Bros. in 1873, are within Mr. Wharton's royalty. The weekly output is about 3,000 tons, obtained wholly by hand mining. The number of hands employed is 150. Lumpsey Mines were commenced in 1882. The shafts are about 100 fathoms deep. Drilling machines, worked by hydraulic power, are used in winning part of the stone. About 3,000 tons per week are obtained, employing 140 men and boys.

Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890)

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!

						Beaglehole, William, 01 Feb 1883, aged 28, Miner, fall of a piece of ironstone which he was trying to get down after a shot, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 04 Feb 1883 {NBI}
						Bousfield, Paul, 07 Dec 1879, (accident: 19 Nov 1879), aged 15, Driver, fell before a set of tubs while coming down a bank and was run over, Buried: All Saints Church, Easington on 10 Dec 1879 {NBI}
						Bugby, Joseph, 25 Jul 1873, aged 35, Miner, fall of dogger or roof, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 27 Jul 1873 {NBI}
						Guest, John, 04 Sep 1879, aged 35, Miner, fall of roof in main way - he had just left his working place and was making outbye when the fall caught him, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 07 Sep 1879 {NBI}
						Heslop, John Robert, 28 Oct 1880, aged 20, Engineman, while cleaning an engine he fell and his leg got entangled between the crank and bed plate, Buried: St. Germain and St. Mark Churchyard, Marske on 01 Nov 1880 {NBI}
						Hooper, Philip, 05 Feb 1875, aged 32, Miner, killed by a fall of roof, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 08 Feb 1875 {NBI}
						Johns, John Wallace, 20 Dec 1883, aged 22, Miner, while drilling a bottom hole a piece of dogger fell from top, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 23 Dec 1883 {NBI}
						Lobley, Thomas, 23 Feb 1882, aged 17, Driver, horse lifted him off his feet, then he fell and was run over by tubs, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 26 Feb 1882 {NBI}
						Pearce, John William, 12 Feb 1890, aged 34, Miner, a shot had knocked a prop out, and whilst attempting to reset it a heavy fall of stone took place, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 16 Feb 1890 {NBI}
						Stanley, Horace, 19 Aug 1878, aged 14, Driver, he lost his light and fell before a set of tubs and was run over, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Aug 1878 {NBI}
						Taylor, James, 19 Apr 1875, aged 39, Overman, crushed by cage, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Apr 1875 {NBI}
						Tretheway, Richard, 19 Jun 1877, (accident: 29 May 1877), aged 19, Miner, foot severely crushed by a fall of ironstone after a shot - he did not sprag overhanging piece of stone, Buried: St. Margaret's Church, Brotton on 21 Jun 1877 {NBI}
						Yandale, Simon, 22 Oct 1889, Deputy, died from natural causes while engaged in laying some plates with some other men

						13 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1873-4 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), South Durham, Westmoreland, and Cleveland District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Durham by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1880 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2903) Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621) Where to find this report
1883 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4078), Durham District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015), 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
1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire, published in 1890
Headstone(s) in St. Germain & St. Mark Churchyard, Marske in Cleveland
Headstone(s) in St. Margaret's Churchyard, Brotton
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
National Burial Index published by The Federation of Family History Societies & Associates