	Unity Brook Colliery	Index	Unity Brook Colliery

Unity Brook Colliery

Location:	Kearsley, Bolton 7 miles [11 km] NW of Manchester
Map Ref:	(Sheet 109 Manchester) SD761040, 53° 31' 55" N, 2° 21' 38" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	James Stott
	James Stott and Co.
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

12th

Mar

1878

Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by safety lamp, 43 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Barnes, Absalom, 12 Mar 1878, aged 14, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Barnes, William, 12 Mar 1878, aged 38, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Beattie, James, 12 Mar 1878, aged 19, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Booth, George, 12 Mar 1878, aged 21, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Byrom, James, 12 Mar 1878, aged 32, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Byrom, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 28, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Chadwick, James, 12 Mar 1878, aged 38, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Clarke, Robert, 12 Mar 1878, aged 18, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Enion, David, 12 Mar 1878, aged 13, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Enion, Johnathan, 12 Mar 1878, aged 12, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Enion, Robert, 12 Mar 1878, aged 39, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Featherstone, Richard, 12 Mar 1878, aged 18, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Fogg, Peter, 12 Mar 1878, aged 26, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Greenhalgh, John, 12 Mar 1878, aged 26, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Hall, E., 01 Apr 1861, Collier, The bearers of a scaffold upon which they were working in the shaft giving way [More information ...]
						Hamblet, John, 12 Mar 1878, aged 31, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Harrison, John, 12 Mar 1878, aged 40, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Haynes, John, 12 Mar 1878, aged 21, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Hilton, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 20, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Hobson, James, 12 Mar 1878, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Hobson, Joseph, 12 Mar 1878, aged 26, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Isherwood, Alfred, 12 Mar 1878, aged 32, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Jackson, George, 12 Mar 1878, aged 28, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Leach, William, 12 Mar 1878, aged 24, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lever, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 18, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lindley, George, 12 Mar 1878, aged 47, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lomax, Amos, 12 Mar 1878, aged 17, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lomax, John Tickle, 12 Mar 1878, aged 31, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lomax, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 28, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lomax, Wright, 12 Mar 1878, aged 26, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Lord (Lindley), Ellis, 12 Mar 1878, aged 15, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Mace, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 19, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Maych, William, 12 Mar 1878, aged 33, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Moore, Christopher, 12 Mar 1878, aged 26, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Morris, William, 12 Mar 1878, aged 15, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Partington, James, 12 Mar 1878, aged 44, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Peake, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 17, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Potter, Noah, 15 Nov 1867, aged 33, Miner, Roof falling as he was taking props
						Rothwell, Philip, 15 Apr 1858, aged 14, Drawer, Injured by his tram waggon
						Tatlock, Thomas, 30 Oct 1865, Miner, His shot not having brought the coal down he went under and the coal fell on him inthe Doe mine
						Tong, Charles, 12 Mar 1878, aged 16, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Unknown, -, 21 May 1872, Coal Miner, Coal falling where a shot had just been fired
						Walker, Andrew, 12 Mar 1878, aged 22, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Wallwork, Richard, 12 Mar 1878, aged 25, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Wardle, Philip, 14 Jan 1879, aged 21, Miner, Coal falling from the side where he was riding up
						Watson, R., 01 Apr 1861, Collier, The bearers of a scaffold upon which they were working in the shaft giving way [More information ...]
						Welsby, Joseph, 12 Mar 1878, aged 18, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Wolstenholme, Samuel, 12 Mar 1878, aged 47, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Wolstenholme, Thomas, 12 Mar 1878, aged 41, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]
						Wolstenholme, William, 12 Mar 1878, aged 21, Explosion of fire-damp in the cannel mine. An outburst of gas from the first large fall of roof in the west workings. Candles being used [More information ...]

						50 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1858 Mines Inspectors Report, North and East Lancashire District, by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1861 Mines Inspectors Report, North and East Lancashire District, by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1872 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 840), North and East Lancashire, and Ireland District by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Manchester District by Joseph Dickinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report