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  Langtree Colliery  Index  Langtree Colliery  
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Langtree Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Standish
3½ miles [6 km] NNW of Wigan
Map Ref: (Sheet 108 Liverpool, Southport and Wigan) SD563110, 53° 35' 37" N, 2° 39' 37" W
Opened:
Closed:
Output: 1894 - Coal.
1896 - Coal.
1900 - Coal.
1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
1915 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment: 1894 - 354 (310 below, 44 surface)
1896 - 401 (357 below, 44 surface)
1900 - 357 (313 below, 44 surface)
1905 - 327 (271 below, 56 surface)
1910 - 368 (305 below, 63 surface)
1915 - 429 (341 below, 88 surface)
1923 - 540 (445 below, 95 surface)
Seams Worked: 1905 - Arley
1910 - Arley
1915 - Arley


  Description Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Disasters Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Names Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

In Memoriam
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Burns, John, 21 Jan 1890, 2 p.m., aged 22, Collier, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was working at the face when a stone fell from between the slips and caught him. The pack was 3 feet from the face

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Farrimond, James, 03 Apr 1908, aged 71, Dataller, When he was engaged assisting the jigger the link of the tightening chain broke, and the movable carriage and pulley got drawn down fatally injuring deceased. One of the empty sets had struck the pulley, apparently through jigging the sets too fast, which accounted for the link breaking

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Harrison, John, 11 Jul 1907, aged 14, Haulage-hand, The lashing chain attaching a set of empty tubs to the haulage rope got loose, and the tubs running back fatally crushed deceased

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Hunter, Hugh, 25 Sep 1894, aged 20, Drawer, Inspection and inquiry made. The deceased was found in front of three full tubs on motion road having been crushed, the tubs would only be travelling slowly on this road the manholes were 10 yards

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Leigh, William, 18 Dec 1913, aged 28, Collier, Deceased was engaged getting down top dirt at the coal face, when a large fall of roof 14 feet 6 inches by 5 feet by 5 feet thick occurred and buried him. The fall came away from a slip running along the face coal, and broke off at a line of props 5 feet 6 inches from the face. It displaced one prop, and it would appear that the regulation propping distances had been exceeded at the place of accident, although the timbering was in order at the time of the fireman's visit three hours previous

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Mosley, Frank, 15 Dec 1905, aged 31, Collier, Inspection made. A stone fell upon him from the roof from just over a prop, at the entrance to his road. There was a crunch, or sudden weighting of the roof, which probably accounted for the stone falling

  Individal page CMHRC 

Salmon, Michael James, 13 Apr 1915, aged 22, Drawer, Crushed by tubs against roof when getting over them

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Simm, Robert, 07 Feb 1901, aged 19, Contractor's-man, Inspection made and inquest attended. He was the son of the contractor who was making an airway parallel with the longwall face, and when preparing to set the second bar a fall of roof occurred from some slips, capping some props, and killing the deceased

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Singleton, James, 01 Oct 1897, (accident: 31 Aug 1897), aged 49, Metalman, Inquiry made and inquest attended. He was engaged repairing one of the drawing roads in the Arley Mine and when in the act of pulling a stone down from the roof with his pick a portion of the roof fell upon him causing internal injuries to which he succumbed at the infirmary on October 1st, 1897

  Individal page CMHRC 

Stringfellow, James, 01 Jun 1921, (accident: 23 Mar 1921), aged 43, Chargeman, Ankle injured. Died 1st. Jun

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Worthington, John, 02 Aug 1904, (accident: 22 Jul 1904), aged 47, Dataller, Fall of roof. Inquiry made. Deceased got his wrist cut by a small stone falling from the roof. He died Aug. 2, 1904, from the effects of pneumonia and erysipelas, accelerated by the accident

 
  11 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with image, have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the image symbol next to the name to see the web page.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre (CMHRC) and are marked with image. The CMHRC is available here.


  Local Collieries Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery Map  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Langtree Colliery

Nearby Collieries  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Langtree Colliery


  Credits Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 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
  • 1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), Liverpool District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
  • 1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Liverpool and North Wales Division (No. 4B) by A. D. Nicholson, 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
  • OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website

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