	New Stubbin Colliery	Index	New Stubbin Colliery

New Stubbin Colliery

Location:	Rawmarsh, nr. Rotherham 2½ miles [4 km] N of Rotherham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SK428966, 53° 27' 52" N, 1° 21' 17" W
Opened:
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1913-16
Owners:	The Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam's Collieries
	Earl Fitzwilliam's Collieries Co.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.
	1954 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.
Employment:	1923 - 1,300 (1,000 below, 300 surface)
	1933 - 1,722 (1,450 below, 272 surface)
	1940 - 1,553 (1,268 below, 285 surface)
	1947 - 1,250 (900 below, 350 surface)
	1954 - 1,392 (1,092 below, 300 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Parkgate, Thorncliffe
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

New Stubbin, Rawmarsh, Nr. Rotherham: Sunk 1913/16, deepened 1952/4 to 434 yds.; 1,100 men prod. 467,000 tons from Parkgate, Thorncliffe and Silkstone seams.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in South Yorkshire, published May 1967

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!

						Ashbridge, Trevor, 01 Feb 1966, aged 24
						Bownes, William, 07 Nov 1924, (accident: 05 Nov 1924, 8.45 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 69, Labourer, He was travelling along an endless rope haulage road and had just passed through a canvas sheet when he stumbled and fell over some bars left lying in the space between the two tracks of rails. The fall resulted in a rupture of the small intestine and the man died two days later. The bars had been placed there the previous day and were in course of being removed. Had the haulage road been kept clear of obstructions the accident would not have happened
						Bridges, James William, 11 Apr 1933, aged 49, Chargehand, Found dead with head crushed in basement of stone grinding mill
						Danks, Charles, 28 Feb 1924, (accident: 27 Feb 1924, 8.15 a.m., 3rd hour of shift), aged 42, Miner, He was lifting the front end of a full tub on to the rails on a gradient of 1 in 12 in favour of the load, when he slipped and fell, the drawbar of the descending tub striking him in the neck and fracturing his spine. He died in hospital the following day
						Ellis, H., 18 Sep 1936, Stoneworker, cause of death was tuberculosis pre-disposed to by silicosis
						Sanderson, Percy, 16 Nov 1933, aged 36, Ripper, A bridge of ripping was being got down in a gate — the props had been withdrawn and a shot had been fired at outbye end — one ripper was clearing up at that end and the other was cutting through the bridge at inbye end when it fell suddenly killing him instantly

						6 names found

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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 . The CMHRC is available here.

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of New Stubbin Colliery

list of collieries/pits etc. near to New Stubbin Colliery

Credits

Sources:

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, Yorkshire Division (No. 3) by H. M. Hudspeth, 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
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Contributions by members of the Public