	Mid Cannock Colliery	Index	Mid Cannock Colliery

Mid Cannock Colliery

Location:	Cannock 8 miles [13 km] NNE of Wolverhampton
Map Ref:	(Sheet 127 Stafford and Telford) SJ988098, 52° 41' 8" N, 2° 1' 4" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	W. Harrison Ltd.
Output:	1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (240,000 tons)
Employment:	1923 - 1,031 (863 below, 168 surface)
	1933 - 1,031 (863 below, 168 surface)
	1940 - 1,031 (863 below, 168 surface)
	1947 - 841 (643 below, 198 surface)
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!

						Beasley, Ernest, 07 Apr 1924, 12.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 30, Horse Driver, Deceased was found by a road doggie lying unconscious between his horse and the tub at a road junction past which he had to drive. He had left the face a few minutes before and his lamp was lying by his side. In going round the corner of the turn the tub passes close to the timber on the inside of the turn. There is also a low girder across the road at the turn, and it is not known whether deceased was caught between the tub and the girder or the tub and the timber. In any case he should not have been working in front of the tub without first unhooking the horse
						Cotterrell, H. R., May 1932, caught by machinery
						Jones, Richard, 15 Jan 1924, (accident: 14 Jan 1924, 2.30 p.m., 7th hour of shift), aged 59, Repairer, Deceased, while on his way to the shaft at the end of the shift, was in the act of passing between a stationary set, consisting of two full tubs, and the side of the roadway, when the set was put in motion and he was pinned between the first tub and a prop. He sustained severe injuries and was removed to hospital forthwith, but died next day. The set was put in motion by an unauthorised haulage hand without steps having been taken to safeguard the men travelling the road on their way to the shaft
						Lees, John, 12 Feb 1880, (accident: 20 Jan 1880), Driver, Injured on the 20th January by tubs. Died this day
						Lockett, B., 18 Aug 1936, aged 14, Screen boy, foot caught in picking belt
						Phillips, C., 03 Jul 1877, (accident: 26 Jun 1877), aged 42, Pikeman, After being cautioned not to do so, deceased went into a headway and pulled a piece of overhanging loose roof upon himself. Injured on 26th ultimo. Died this day

						6 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), South Staffordshire District by James P. Baker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Midland and Southern Division (No. 8) by H. A. Abbott, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
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
1947 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