	Ledston Luck Colliery	Index	Ledston Luck Colliery

Ledston Luck Colliery

Location:	Ledstone 8½ miles [14 km] E of Leeds
Map Ref:	(Sheet 105 York and Selby) SE429307, 53° 46' 16" N, 1° 20' 54" W
Opened:	1909
Closed:	Oct 1986
Owners:	Micklefield Coal and Lime Co., Ltd.
	Briggs Collieries Ltd.
Output:	1915 - No. 1 - Coal.
	1915 - No. 2 - Coal.
	1954 - Coal.
Employment:	1910 - 98 (39 below, 59 surface) [Sinking]
	1915 - No. 1 - 471 (422 below, 49 surface)
	1915 - No. 2 - 285 (269 below, 16 surface)
	1923 - No. 1 - 669 (600 below, 69 surface)
	1923 - No. 2 - 820 (764 below, 56 surface)
	1933 - No. 1 - 446 (408 below, 38 surface)
	1933 - No. 2 - 309 (284 below, 25 surface)
	1954 - 398 (301 below, 97 surface)
Seams Worked:	1915 - No. 1 - Beeston
	1915 - No. 2 - Flockton
	1954 - Flockton Thick, Middleton Little
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

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!

						Binns, George, 15 Nov 1940, aged 45, Collier, Crushed by tubs
						Bruce, Henry, 11 Oct 1913, (accident: 09 Oct 1913), aged 39, Chargeman Sinker, He had just lengthened the signal wire and was standing near the hoppit at the bottom of a sinking pit watching the wire being hauled up, when a clamp on the wire caught and lifted out one of the wooden segments of the bricking scaffold. This fell some 20 yards on to deceased who sustained such severe injuries that he died two days later. The segments would have been better bolted to the frame
						Eaglen, Charles A., 27 Aug 1915, aged 19, Filler, Lifting tubs of coal onto rails when piece of stone fell without warning — neck broken and killed instantly
						Howson, Frederick, 27 Nov 1913, aged 41, Collier, Deceased was baring at the bottom of the coal at the fast corner of a bord bank, when, without warning, a stone measuring about 4 feet square by 1 feet thick and weighing 1 ton, fell upon him and killed him. The stone came from a smooth parting and disclosed 2 slips, one of which was unforeseen. The bank was well timbered. The deputy had inspected the place about 2½ hours before the accident happened and found all safe
						Parsons, James, 08 Jan 1927, aged 19, Collier, Crushed by tubs
						Wharton, Francis, 07 Nov 1926, aged 25, Collier, Fall in a roadway

						6 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Yorkshire and North Midland Division (No. 3) by Thomas H. Mottram, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian