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All interested parties were represented. (149,000 tons), 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory.

Two doors in No.2 level were blown outbye and a tub was found on the top of another about 50 yards from the face. It was the property of the Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery Company Limited with Mr. G. Blake Walker as the managing director and agent and Mr. Johnathan Wroe was the certificated manager. Maitland, H.M. Coroner for the Honour of Pontefract and the West Riding of Yorkshire on the 1st. © Northern Mine Research Society | Registered Charity Number - 326704. When the deputies left the coalfaces many of the men were preparing to leave work and a considerable number which was not known, were actually at the box hole on their way to the pit bottom after the deputies arrived there but it was learned afterwards that at the time of the explosion fourteen men remained in the No.2 Section and several men whom Clayton had left working at the coal face in No.3 Section had continued to work after the others had gone out. The colliery was about five miles to the south of Barnsley and had been working for a considerable time since sinking operations started at the colliery in 1854. We, on our part, have given much thought to this question as it affects the position of the different officials for the care and safety of the men in the district visited by the explosion and we fond no grounds to take a different view from the Coroner and the jury.

Wentworth Silkstone Colliery : Wentworth Silkstone Colliery Location: 3 miles [5 km] SW of Barnsley Map Ref: (Sheet 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield, 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SE311034, 53° 31' 34" N, 1° 31' 51" W: Opened: Closed: Owners: Wentworth Silkstone Collieries (1919) Ltd. Wentworth Silkstone Collieries Ltd. 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) Robinson was on leave at the time and Mr. H.M. Hudspeth and Mr. Charles D. Mottram went straight to the pit on motor cycles as there was no suitable train. The Colliery Guardian, 5th March 1915, p.503. The jury returned the following verdict on the deaths of the men: The twelve men lost their lives by an explosion of coal gas on the 30th May 1914, caused by the stoppage and restarting of the fan with a defective coal-cutting machine running at the face causing ignition, and the jury are of the opinion that the whole of the management have been very negligent, but not criminally so. The power that was used in the pit was generated at the surface at 500 volts and the main cable taken down No.4 Pit, along the main haulage road and terminated in that level at a junction box a few yards inbye to the entrance to No.4 Topside Slant. Up to about 1 p.m. on that date there were about 108 people in the Athersley Whinmoor workings.

It was ascertained that at the time of the explosion the ventilating fan had been stopped for about 16 minutes to allow it to be changed over from gas to steam. In view of the defective coal-cutter and the accumulation of gas when the fan stopped it was decided that there was a contravention of Section 29 (1) of the Coal Mines Act, 1911. Learn more…, A report from September 21st 1889 gives details of a new Colliery for Dronfield: 'The valuable seam of coal known as the Blackshale or Silkstone and under 180 acres of land situated at Dronfield adjoining the main line of the Midland Railway has just been purchased by the Unstone Coal and Coke Company. There was a cutter driven by compressed air on the face. Fisher’s gate, there was Clarke-Stevenson electric coal cutter. The dust at the loading points would have been pure coal dust but because the bottom 2 feet if stone and 1 foot of top stone were ripped in the roads, this added stone dust would tend to render it harmless. There were indications of crusted coke dust on the roof girders, the packs and on the coal at the face of the level. REFERENCES It ws the Whit holidays and advantage was taken of the moving of the haulage rope in the man level to a new side slant.

These two man with eight others were about to take a new haulage rope into the workings. The main level was lit by electric lamps from the pit bottom to a point 210 yards inbye. The ventilation was easily restored by the erection of brattice sheets, the rescue work presented no serious difficulties and there was no need to use the rescue apparatus with which the colliery was amply provided. Joseph Siddall aged 18 years conveyor belt remover. The average number of people employed during two coal shifts and repairing shift was 299 but during the largest shift the number was 207. It was noted that the cover of the switch was secured by only one bolt instead of six and that the cover did not appear to be flame-tight. (extracted from an excellent website produced by A N Bridgewater covering Mining in North Derbyshire and other aspects of local history). An inspection was made by the Inspectors along with Samuel Roebuck and Mr. Matthewman representing the Yorkshire Miners’ Association. Dust samples were taken and analysed. The colliery was about five miles to the south of Barnsley and had been working for a considerable time since sinking operations started at the colliery in 1854.

Gas had accumulated in the cutting side of William Fisher’s gate and when the fan was restarted, the gas was carried over it. No.3 was a similar distance from No.1 Pit and was the main upcast shaft.

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