Patrick Brannon
| Age: | 40 |
| Died: | 1st Jun 1867 |
| Accident: | 1st Jun 1867 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1827 |
| Colliery: | Washington |
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| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Notes: | over winding, wife and four children |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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An accident occurred this evening, at Washington Colliery, about eight miles south of Newcastle, resulting in the death of eight men and two boys. It appeared that on being drawn to bank the brakesman in charge of the engine did not stop the machinery as the cage got to the mouth of the pit. The result was that the cage, with its occupants, was drawn right up against the "chocks," near the pullies, with so much violence that the wire rope broke, letting the cage and the men fall down the shaft. All the men must have been instantaneously killed, the pit being 250 yards in depth.
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| 05 Jun 1867 | The Death of Ten Pitmen (The Times) |
- Durham Mining Disasters, c.1700 - 1950s by Maureen Anderson, Published by Wharncliffe Books, 2008, ISBN 1-845630-73-4
- Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by T. Fordyce, published in 1867
- Sunderland Herald
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Sally Leese
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24 Aug 2019 |
I think he might be my grandfather do you have details about his family
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Nigel Dockerty
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11 Oct 2020 |
The 1867 Washington Pit Shaft accident - my ancestor is Henry Curran who died alongside 9 other men and I'm trying to find his burial place and what happened to his family.
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