	Hodge Close (Slate)	Index	Hodge Close (Slate)

Hodge Close (Slate)

Location:	Tilberthwaite, Coniston 13½ miles [22 km] WNW of Kendal
Map Ref:	(Sheet 90) NY317017, 54° 24' 23" N, 3° 3' 4" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1900s - James Stephenson & Co.
	1910s - Tilberthwaite Green Slate Co. Ltd.
	1940s - Buttermere Green Slate Quarries Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Slate.
	1897 - Slate.
	1900 - Slate.
	1902 - Slate.
	1905 - Roofing slate.
	1915 - Slate.
	1921 - Slate.
	1922 - Slate.
	1923 - Slate.
	1924 - Slate.
	1925 - Slate.
	1929 - Slate.
	1930 - Slate.
	1935 - Slate.
	1945 - Slate.
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Hodge Close (Slate)
Employment:	1896 - 56 (25 below, 31 surface)
	1897 - 71 (30 below, 41 surface)
	1900 - 8 (4 below, 4 surface)
	1902 - 4
	1905 - 80 (23 below, 57 surface)
	1915 - 7 (3 below, 4 surface)
	1921 - 12 (5 below, 7 surface)
	1922 - 16 (3 below, 13 surface)
	1923 - 20 (7 below, 13 surface)
	1924 - 34 (16 below, 18 surface)
	1925 - 0 [Not worked since 1924]
	1929 - 32 (9 below, 23 surface)
	1930 - 26 (11 below, 15 surface)
	1935 - 19 (7 below, 12 surface)
	1945 - 14 (4 below, 10 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Notes:	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Hodge Close (Slate)

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!

						Brockbank, John, 20 Jul 1911, aged 36, Quarryman, he was struck on the head by a piece of slate which fell from the waggon as it was being hoisted to the "blondin" or aerial tramway
						Brockbank, Ralph, 09 Nov 1933, aged 30, Rock hand, Accidentally killed by being struck by a piece of rock thrown out by a second explosion of one of the holes which they had fired ; address: Tilberthwaite Cottages, Coniston; his brother, Joseph, was killed in a quarry in 1938
						Casson, John, 27 Nov 1901, aged 25, Quarryman, Deceased was turning off a new working when a huge mass of rock fell from the side and buried him. No one suspected any danger from the quarry side, as it had been in the same condition for quite a dozen years. Several other men had narrow escapes, but fortunately no one else was seriously injured [Inspection made & inquest attended]
						Dixon, Joseph, 08 Sep 1932, aged 50, killed instantly when rocks weighing between 30 and 40 tons fell on him while working in a quarry [More information ...]
						Jackson, Robert, 08 Sep 1932, Quarryman, fall of rock [More information ...]
						Jackson, William, 28 Feb 1896, aged 40, Quarryman, Deceased was working down some ground with a light crow-bar, standing for the purpose on a projecting ledge of rock, about 16 inches square. The bar slipped and he fell head foremost to the bottom of the quarry, a distance of 21 ft. A chain was hanging over the quarry face, within a yard of deceased, which he ought to have used [Inspection made & inquest attended]

						6 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Hodge Close (Slate)

Credits

Sources:

1896 List of Quarries
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1897 List of Quarries
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Quarries
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Newcastle District (No. 2) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1922 List of Quarries - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 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
1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Contributions by members of the Public
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
The Times Newspaper