	Townhead Colliery	Index	Townhead Colliery

Townhead Colliery

Location:	Dearham 13 miles [21 km] NNE of Whitehaven
Map Ref:	(Sheet 89) NY075369, 54° 43' 7" N, 3° 26' 10" W
Opened:
Closed:	17 Sep 1903
Owners:	1890s - Brown Bros. & Co.
	1900s - Townhead Colliery Co.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1902 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1894 - 11 (7 below, 4 surface)
	1896 - 11 (8 below, 3 surface)
	1900 - 22 (17 below, 5 surface)
	1902 - 20 (15 below, 5 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Townhead Colliery
Notes:	1898 - Cannel, Metal Band seams abandoned - coal exhausted
	1903, 17 Sep - Crow seam abandoned
	1903, 22 Sep - Yard Band seam abandoned - Lack of capital

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!

						Brown, Hurst, 01 Jul 1903, aged 33, Putter, Deceased was employed as a trailer or putter in a landsale colliery, owned and worked by his relatives, and was coming outbye with a loaded tub in the Yard Band when a heavy fall of roof took place and buried him. The roof stone is very short, and further falls occurred before his body was recovered. The place was very wet and heavily timbered, and it appeared that the tubs had been catching the props, and this was the probable cause of the accident. The jury thought that sufficient attention had not been paid by the owners to complaints as to the tubs catching the timber. The colliery is now abandoned.

						1 name found

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Credits

Sources:

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
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report