Thomas Bradley
| Age: | 28 |
| Died: | 1st Sep 1828 |
| Accident: | 1st Sep 1828 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1800 |
| Colliery: | Houghton-le-Spring, New Pit |
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| Notes: | of Houghton ; killed in the 1828 explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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An explosion took place in the new pit at Houghton-le-spring, belonging to Lord Durham, when three men and four boys were burnt to death. The accident was attributed to the sufferers themselves having incautiously left open a door in the mine on the Saturday. The foul air had by this means accumulated in the workings, and on the return of the pitmen on the morning with their lights, it immediately exploded and occasioned the fatal result.
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| 06 Sep 1828 | News (Durham Advertiser) |
- Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.
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29 Sep 2011 |
Tracing family tree and wodered if anyone was aware if William Bradley was married to a Jane who was possibly pregnant at the time of the explosion?
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