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	Park End Quarry	Index	Park End Quarry

Location:	18½ miles [29 km] SE of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 91, 92) NY923257, 54° 37' 35" N, 2° 7' 9" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1900s - Ord & Maddison Ltd.
	1910s - Ord & Maddison
Output:	1896 - Whinstone.
	1897 - Whinstone.
	1905 - Whinstone.
	1922 - Igneous rock.
Employment:	1896 - 0 [Not working]
	1897 - 27 (25 below, 2 surface)
	1905 - 62 (32 below, 30 surface)
	1922 - 139 (114 below, 25 surface)
Notes:	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Park End Quarry

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Disasters (5 or more killed)

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Names of those killed at this colliery

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						Bowron, Charles, 05 Nov 1912, aged 40, Meller, he was breaking and filling stone in the quarry bottom when he heard a large stone coming down the face; he was running to get clear when the stone, some four cwts. in weight, beat and broke on a large piece of stone in the quarry bottom and a fragment hit him in the right side; he died the same night from his injuries; the stone fell 44 feet on to an irregular benching, and then a further 20 feet into the quarry bottom; it came away from between natural joints; the face had been dressed down only a few days before; doubtless the vibration caused by some light shots fired in the vicinity had loosened the stone and caused it to fall half an hour after the last shot
						1 name found

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