	Newcastle Colliery	Index	Newcastle Colliery

Newcastle Colliery

Location:	Basford 2½ miles [4 km] NW of Nottingham
Map Ref:	(Sheet 129 Nottingham and Loughborough) SK545422, 52° 58' 27" N, 1° 11' 13" W
Opened:
Closed:	1925
Owners:	Babbington Coal Co.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 311 (252 below, 59 surface)
	1896 - 181 (142 below, 39 surface)
	1900 - 316 (235 below, 81 surface)
	1905 - 426 (323 below, 103 surface)
	1910 - 416 (330 below, 86 surface)
	1915 - 247 (199 below, 48 surface)
	1923 - 0 [inc. In Cinder Hill]
Seams Worked:	1894 - Top Hard
	1896 - Top Hard
	1900 - Top Hard
	1905 - Top Hard
	1910 - Top Hard
	1915 - Top Hard
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!

						Attenborough, F., 07 Aug 1857, aged 18, Stoker, Entangled in drum arms of winding gear [More information ...]
						Beck, John, 08 Jan 1861, aged 36, Loader, Falling of roof [More information ...]
						Birch, William, 08 Jan 1861, aged 18, Trammer, Falling of roof [More information ...]
						Cale, Frank, 30 Nov 1915, aged 44, Stallman, He and another were pushing a full tub along face when stone fell from a weight break and he was killed instantly
						Heuson, John, 23 Jul 1866, aged 66, Collier, Crushed by tubs in main travelling way
						Kirk, William, 04 Sep 1899, (accident: 15 Aug 1899), aged 66, Deputy, He was riding between two full tubs in a train of eighteen, when they closed up and crushed deceased between the tubs. Such injury accelerated heart disease from which he died 4th September (Top hard coal)
						Lane, George, 30 Oct 1871, aged 38, Bricklayer, Fell down shaft
						Revel, J., 13 Aug 1863, aged 33, Miner, Fall of roof
						Walters, Joel, 08 Mar 1867, aged 22, Collier, Fall of roof
						Whitehall, Joseph, 27 Aug 1902, aged 66, No occupation, Deceased, who was very deaf, was knocked down and run over by a locomotive on the colliery railway. Not employed in or about the mine [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]
						Wingfield, Thomas, 21 Dec 1865, Collier

						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. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

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.

more information on some of the fatalities shown above

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Credits

Sources:

1857 Mines Inspectors Report, by John Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1861 Mines Inspectors Report, by John Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1863 Mines Inspectors Report, by John Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), Midland District by Thomas Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), Midland District (No. 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Midland District (No. 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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