	Montagu Fireclay	Index	Montagu Fireclay

Montagu Fireclay

Location:	Scotswood
Map Ref:
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1860s - W. Ridley Carr
	1880s - Thomas Carr & Son.
	1890s - Walter Scott Ltd.
Output:	1882 - Coal. Fireclay.
	1883 - Coal. Fireclay.
	1888 - Coal. Fireclay.
	1890 - Coal. Fireclay.
	1894 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
	1896 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
	1900 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
	1902 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
	1910 - Coal: Manufacturing. Fireclay.
Employment:	1894 - 74 (56 below, 18 surface)
	1896 - 75 (54 below, 21 surface)
	1900 - 73 (57 below, 16 surface)
	1902 - 75 (60 below, 15 surface)
	1905 - 56 (42 below, 14 surface)
	1910 - 65 (55 below, 10 surface)
	1915 - 25 (19 below, 6 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Tilley
	1910 - Hodge, Stone Coal
	1915 - Hodge
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Montagu Fireclay
Notes:	1914 - Hodge, Stone Coal, Tilley seams abandoned
	1916 - Hodge seam abandoned

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!

						Anderson, Joseph, 05 Dec 1888, (accident: 15 Nov 1888), aged 44, Hewer, head crushed between two tubs
						Davieson, William, 08 Dec 1902, aged 38, Hewer, killed by a fall of roof stone in a jenkin, or place splitting a pillar lengthways, in the Tilley seam 20 inches thick ; there was false bedding in the stone, and a jack next the fast side ; some timber may have been canted ; the accident happened at 6.20 a.m. and the deputy had examined it at 3.40 a.m. before deceased started work, and thought it safe
						Nicholson, John, 19 Jul 1906, (accident: 07 Feb 1903), aged 66, Hewer, blood poisoning
						Robson, James, 29 May 1905, aged 14, Landing Lad [More information ...]
						Robson, Margaret, 04 Oct 1902, aged 4, [Not Employed], some children are supposed to have been playing with fire at fire-brick kilns near the colliery, and deceased clothing was set on fire.
						Skipsey, Newton, 09 Dec 1913, aged 19, Onsetter and Shifter, deceased who had no work to do for a few minutes, walked along the siding near the shaft bottom towards where a stoneman was dressing off the side to make width, when, within some 6 feet of where the man was working, a piece of side suddenly fell off and killed the lad on the spot; the stone had been slightly overhanging the coal below for probably 40 years, and the fall disclosed a wet weight break which could not have been foreseen
						Wilkinson, James, 25 Mar 1909, 10.45 a.m., aged 22, Hewer and Putter, ignition of fire-damp by candle flame
						Wilkinson, Job, 18 Feb 1900, (accident: 06 Feb 1900), aged 43, Shifter, When repairing a sheave on the haulage road he was caught between the rope and sheave. [Inquest attended]

						8 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1880 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1888 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5779), Newcastle District (No. 3) by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Newcastle District (No. 3) by John L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, 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), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, 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), Northern Division (No. 2) by J. R. R. Wilson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Mineral Statistics for 1869 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works