The presentation of rewards of merit to the band of sinkers
who so heroically distinguished themselves at Hartley
took place in the New Town-hall Newcastle, on Tuesday
evening, the chair was occupied by Hugh Taylor,
Esq., chairman of the Coal Trade, and the proceedings,
in which several gentlemen of influence in the district
took part, were witnessed by many spectators. The
large sum of £1,587 had been raised by public subscription
for the sinkers and the number of men, whose
services were entitled to, and received acknowledgment,
was thirty-eight, including their gallant Captain Wm. Coulson.
Owing to the intricate nature of the dies,
the medals, which formed the principle feature of the
testimonials, had not been completed, but as a temporary
substitute, each sinker was presented by the chairman
with a fac simile engraving upon a card, together
with the name of the recipient. Accompanying each
piece of paper was a purse of gold, the money value of
which was determined by the claims of the presentee.
In an intelligent and manly speech, Mr. John Manderson,
one of the sinkers, moved a vote of thanks to the
committee, who have had a somewhat delicate task to
perform, but to the satisfactory manner in which it has
been discharged, the response which the resolution
called forth bore pleading testimony. The proceedings
throughout were of the most harmonious and agreeable
description.
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Date | Article (Newspaper) |
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| 16 Jan 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (Annual Register for 1862) |
| 18 Jan 1862 | Terrible Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 20 Jan 1862 | The Dreadful Colliery Accident In Northumberland (The Times) |
| 21 Jan 1862 | The Catastrophe at Hartley Colliery (The Times) |
| 22 Jan 1862 | The Calamity In Northumberland (The Times) |
| 23 Jan 1862 | The Terrible Calamity In the Hartley Colliery (The Times) |
| 23 Jan 1862 | Letters to the Editor, Hartley Colliery (The Times) |
| 24 Jan 1862 | The Terrible Calamity In the Hartley Colliery (The Times) |
| 25 Jan 1862 | The Awful Calamity In New Hartley Colliery (The Times) |
| 25 Jan 1862 | Letters to the Editor, The Sufferers By The Accident At Hartley Pit (The Times) |
| 25 Jan 1862 | Dreadful Colliery Accident, Loss of Two Hundred and twenty lives (Illustrated London News) |
| 25 Jan 1862 | Accidents, Inquests, etc., Terrible Colliery Accident (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 27 Jan 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 28 Jan 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 28 Jan 1862 | Letters to the Editor, Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 29 Jan 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 30 Jan 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 30 Jan 1862 | The Sufferers By the Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 31 Jan 1862 | Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 31 Jan 1862 | Hartley Colliery Catastrophe (The Times) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Pit Tragedy (Illustrated London News) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | Meetings At Consett and Blackhill (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Calamity, Mr. Elliott On Insurance (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | Weekly Retrospect (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | Mining Accidents, Government Inspection And Public Sympathy (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 01 Feb 1862 | The Heroes Of Hartley (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 03 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 03 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Disaster (The Times) |
| 05 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 05 Feb 1862 | Letters to the Editor, The Hartley Disaster (The Times) |
| 06 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 06 Feb 1862 | Letters to the Editor, Accidents In Coal Mines (The Times) |
| 06 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Disaster (The Times) |
| 07 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Times) |
| 08 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 08 Feb 1862 | Complete Report Of The Hartley Pit Catastrophe (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 08 Feb 1862 | Photographs Of The Hartley Catastrophe (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 12 Feb 1862 | Comment (The Times) |
| 15 Feb 1862 | Topics of the Week (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 15 Feb 1862 | Home News (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 15 Feb 1862 | Accidents, Inquests, etc., The Inquiry into the Hartley Colliery Calamity (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 15 Feb 1862 | Weekly Retrospect (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 15 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Fund, Meeting Of The Relief Committee (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 18 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Accident (Bury and Norwich Post) |
| 20 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Relief Fund (The Western Daily Press) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | Sayings and Doings in Parliament, The Hartley Colliery Accident (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Relief Fund (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | The Hartley Accident, Honour To Whom Honour Is Due (Morpeth Herald) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | Miscellaneous News (The Leeds Times) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | Weekly Retrospect (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 22 Feb 1862 | The New Hartley Colliery (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 01 Mar 1862 | Home News, The Hartley Colliery Calamity (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 08 Mar 1862 | Home News, The Hartley Colliery Fund (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 08 Mar 1862 | Home News, The Hartley Widows and Orphans (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 08 Mar 1862 | The Hartley Colliery (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 15 Mar 1862 | Sunderland Contributions To The Hartley Fund (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 24 Mar 1862 | Letters to the Editor (The Times) |
| 29 Mar 1862 | The Hartley Relief Fund At The Mansion House (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 05 Apr 1862 | The Hartley Relief Committee (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 26 Apr 1862 | The Hartley Fund (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 03 May 1862 | Poem On The Hartley Accident (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 14 May 1862 | The Sinkers' Testimonial (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 14 May 1862 | The Survivors At New Hartley (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 17 May 1862 | Hartley Sinkers' Testimonials, Presentation Ceremony (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 20 May 1862 | Sinkers' Testimonial Fund (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 21 May 1862 | News (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 21 May 1862 | The Reward Of Merit (Newcastle Daily Journal) |
| 22 May 1862 | Presentation To The Hartley Sinkers (Shields Daily Gazette) |
| 24 May 1862 | The Hartley Heroes (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 24 May 1862 | The Hartley Calamity (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 24 May 1862 | Presentation Of Testimonials To The Hartley Sinkers (Morpeth Herald) |
| 27 May 1862 | The Hartley Colliery Catastrophe (The Times) |
| 30 May 1862 | Hartley Sinkers' Testimonial Fund, Notice To Workmen, Tradesmen, And Others (Newcastle Courant) |
| 07 Jun 1862 | The Hartley Pit Catastrophe (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 02 Aug 1862 | Model Of The Hartley Colliery (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 30 Aug 1862 | "Reading The Queen's Letter" (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 11 Oct 1862 | North Of England Mining Institute (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 11 Oct 1862 | "The Reading Of The Queen's Letter" (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 18 Oct 1862 | The Hartley Accident (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 03 Jan 1863 | The Hartley Sinkers (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 03 Feb 1863 | Letters to the Editor, The Hartley Colliery Fund (The Times) |
| 07 Feb 1863 | Letters to the Editor, The Hartley Colliery Relief Fund (The Times) |
| 07 Feb 1863 | Letters to the Editor (The Times) |
| 14 Feb 1863 | The Hartley Surplus (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 21 Feb 1863 | The Hartley Fund (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 28 Feb 1863 | Hartley Relief Fund Committee (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 28 Feb 1863 | News (Newcastle Daily Chronicle) |
| 08 May 1863 | The Hartley Fund (Newcastle Courant) |
| 27 Jun 1863 | News (Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury) |
| 21 Nov 1863 | The Hartley Relief Fund (The Penny Illustrated Paper) |
| 27 Apr 1880 | Hartley Colliery Accident Fund (The Times) |
| 25 May 1886 | Death Of One Of The Hartley Heroes (The Middlesbrough Daily Gazette) |
| 27 Jun 1910 | Aged Miners' Cottages, Hartley Disaster Memorial (Sunderland Daily Echo) |
| 08 Jun 1927 | News and Notes (The Science and Art of Mining) |
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