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New Flint Colliery |
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New Flint Colliery |
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New Flint Colliery
also known as Flint Marsh Colliery
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Flint
11½ miles [18 km] WNW of Chester
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| 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 |
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Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
Description
Disasters (5 or more killed)
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20th |
May |
1828 |
| Explosion of firedamp, 11 lives lost
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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.
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next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.
Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
| | |  | | | | Ellis, Robert, 19 Dec 1868, Collier, An explosion |
| | |  | | | | 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 |
| | |  | | | | 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 |
| | |  | | | | Jones, Edward, 21 Jan 1869, aged 45, Collier, Fall of coal |
| | |  | | | | Jones, Edward, 21 Jan 1870, Collier, Fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | 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 |
| | |  | | | | Jones, Robert, 10 Sep 1868, Collier, Fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | Parry, A., 25 Aug 1857, Drawer, Explosion of firedamp |
| | |  | | | | Redfirn, Joseph, 08 Feb 1877, aged 18, Jigger, Fall of roof |
| | |  | | | | 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 |
| | |  | | | | Thomas, Thomas, 11 Dec 1873, aged 61, Fireman, Fall of coal |
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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 ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
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next to the name to see the web page.
more information on some of the fatalities shown above
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of New Flint Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to New Flint Colliery
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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