	Whitriggs (Iron Ore)	Index	Whitriggs (Iron Ore)

Whitriggs (Iron Ore)

Location:	Lindal 5 miles [8 km] NE of Barrow-in-Furness
Map Ref:	(Sheet 96) SD243764, 54° 10' 40" N, 3° 9' 33" W
Opened:
Closed:	1915
Owners:	1890s - Barrow Haematite Steel Co. Ltd.
	1900s - Harrison, Ainslie & Co. Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Iron Ore (Red Hematite).
Employment:	1896 - 55 (38 below, 17 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Whitriggs (Iron Ore)
Notes:	1915 - Abandoned

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!

						Burns, Edward, 24 Jul 1862, (accident: 22 Jul 1862), the cage was hoisted to the top of the scaffolding above the pit mouth, he was drawn into the "sheaves" of the scaffold, and fearfully crushed, nearly all the ribs on one side of the body being broken, and one of his wrists fractured, besides sustaining sundry other bruises
						Butter, Joseph, 12 Apr 1882, aged 21, Miner, fell down shaft from cage
						Chapman, Richard, 11 Jun 1842, he was killed by a piece of oak wood falling from the bucket, as it was ascending the shaft, the wood, it appeared, struck the deceased on the head and killed him instantly
						Condy, Albert, 02 Jan 1875, aged 35, Miner, killed by a stone falling from a bucket
						Fisher, George, 09 Dec 1870, aged 46, Miner, killed by a fall of roof, left a widow and seven children
						Gill, Daniel, 03 Dec 1896, aged 45, Miner, Accident due to the man's own carelessness. He was holing through an old vertical rise, and had blown out the timber, which was covered by a quantity of loose stones. He then proceeded by another road to the top of the rise, and finding the stones had not fallen through, he foolishly stood upon them, and endeavoured, unfortunately with too much success, to push them through by stamping with his foot. The immediate result was that the stones gave way, and he fell with them, a distance of 28 feet [Inspection made]
						Hacks, Joseph, 13 Apr 1882
						Harris, James, 24 Aug 1850, aged 31, he was sinking a shaft when a bucket fell down the shaft striking him on the head
						Jeffreys, Johnson, 24 Jan 1849, aged 22, shaft scaffolding collapsed and he fell into the sump
						Mackareth, Thomas, 09 Mar 1862, aged 13, found in the sump with his head a little bruised
						Roberts, William, 27 Nov 1865, aged 31, crushed by a fall of ore
						Sampson, Henry, 10 Dec 1884, aged 33, Miner, killed by a fall of roof
						Watson, Henry Barker, 08 Nov 1861, aged 39, knocked down shaft by cage, left six orphan children [More information ...]
						Wilkinson, Henry, 08 Nov 1861, knocked down shaft by cage, left a wife and large family [More information ...]
						Williams, William, 15 Aug 1881, aged 43, Miner, killed by a fall of roof

						15 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.

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more information on some of the fatalities shown above

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Whitriggs (Iron Ore)

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Whitriggs (Iron Ore)

Credits

Sources:

1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Newcastle-on-Tyne District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241)
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621) Where to find this report
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Newcastle District by James Willis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
Mineral Statistics for 1883 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4058), published in 1884 — includes List of Mines and Mineral Works