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  New Flint Colliery  Index  New Flint Colliery  
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New Flint Colliery

also known as Flint Marsh Colliery


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Flint
11½ miles [18 km] WNW of Chester
Map Ref: (Sheet 117 Chester and Wrexham) SJ234732, 53° 15' 1" N, 3° 8' 49" W
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Owners: Flint Marsh Colliery Company
Notes:

Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!



  Description Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Disasters Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)


Memorial  20th May 1828  Explosion of firedamp, 11 lives lost (Show Names)

Those entries marked with image, signify a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the image symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.


  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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Ellis, Robert, 19 Dec 1868, Collier, An explosion

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Griffiths, Edward, 25 Jan 1900, aged 42, Contractor, Inspection made. When his partner and himself were engaged ripping the roof of their roadway, a large stone fell upon the deceased from a slip in the roof. He succumbed to the injuries received June 30, 1900

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Johnson, Benjamin, 13 May 1896, (accident: 04 May 1896), aged 26, Hooker on, Inspection made and inquest attended. He had nearly descended the shaft in the cage to the mouthing from which point the shaft was being sunk deeper when he attempted to cross the shaft to the opposite side to the cage and somehow fell through the hole which the hoppit descended through and fell a distance of 7 yards. He succumbed to the injuries received on the 13th

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Jones, Edward, 21 Jan 1869, aged 45, Collier, Fall of coal

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Jones, Edward, 21 Jan 1870, Collier, Fall of roof

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Jones, John, 12 Dec 1900, aged 46, Contractor, Inspection made. The deceased was taking a full tub back from the face, when a large stone fell from between two slips running parallel with roadway upon the deceased, capping two props, and breaking the covering timber projecting from the last bar

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Jones, Robert, 10 Sep 1868, Collier, Fall of roof

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Parry, A., 25 Aug 1857, Drawer, Explosion of firedamp

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Redfirn, Joseph, 08 Feb 1877, aged 18, Jigger, Fall of roof

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Roberts, Joseph H., 05 Sep 1900, aged 19, Filler, Inspection made and inquest attended. When in the act of filling a tub of coal at the face, a fall of roof occurred from between slips. The roadway was propped at the sides, but not barred

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Thomas, Thomas, 11 Dec 1873, aged 61, Fireman, Fall of coal

 
  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.

More information  more information on some of the fatalities shown above


  Local Collieries Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Colliery Map  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of New Flint Colliery

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


  Credits Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1857 Mines Inspectors Report, by Peter Higson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
  • 1868 Mines Inspectors Report, South West Lancashire and North Wales District by Peter Higson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
  • 1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), South West Lancashire and North Wales District by Peter Higson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), West Lancashire and North Wales District by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Liverpool District by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Liverpool District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
  • 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Liverpool District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report

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