The Colliery Guardian, 5th March 1915, p.503. All this indicated that the blast was outbye from the coalface along the level. No.4 shaft was 14 feet in diameter and sunk to the Whinmoor at 218 yards working the Whinmoor and the Silkstone. Electricity was used for underground lighting, pumping, coal cutting and conveying and there was no cause to think that they had been implicated in the explosion as they were far removed from the scene. The speed of the rope was two and half miles per hour. 422,000 tons annually. Mr. C.L. They arrived at the pit about 6 p.m. By this time the bodies had been brought to the surface. The starting switch was in the “on” position indicating that the machine was working at the time of the explosion. Notice of the disaster was received at the Divisional Office in Doncaster between 4.30 and 4.50 on Saturday afternoon.

Below the Silkstone there was staple pit to the Whinmoor. Shortly after Clayton rang the surface, he was joined by Joseph Sellars, the afternoon deputy who went down the pit at 1 o’clock with others, they met Thomas Fearnley who happened to be in the pit about 150 yards from the pit bottom. One man, Pat Maycock, was found slightly injured in the No.2 Level between Nos. REFERENCES Experiments were carried out by the Inspectors in the presence of Professors O’Shea and Armstrong of the University of Sheffield, to find the effect of stopping the fan for a short period and the result was that they found that gas accumulated quickly in the face in William Fisher’s gate and that it quickly cleared when the fan was restarted. These two man with eight others were about to take a new haulage rope into the workings.

The holing was done by electric coal cutting machines and electrically driven conveyors were employed on the face to take the coal to tubs at the gate end. The company will take possession in the course of the week and it is intended to develop a coalfield commensurate with that of the Moor Top Colliery near Unstone belonging to the same company. It was near J.T. Please contact us here, This site uses Cookies.

Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the, 1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. An inspection was made by the Inspectors along with Samuel Roebuck and Mr. Matthewman representing the Yorkshire Miners’ Association.

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.) John William Wordsworth aged 24 years, a trammer.

Longwall method was used and a face length of just over 900 yards had been opened put. May 1914” and was conducted by Samuel Pope, Barrister-at-Law and Thomas H. Mottram one of His Majesty’s Divisional Inspectors of Mines. This was called the No.2 Section and for four days after the explosion, when the ventilation had been restored, the velocity of the air was found to be 5 feet per second and the quantity 3,200 cubic feet per second.

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. 1 and 4 Pits. Fred Walker aged 20 years conveyor belt remover. As firedamp a given off in the working safety lamps were used throughout the colliery.

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.

There was a cutter driven by compressed air on the face. NCB Leaflet: Coal in Barnsley Area, published 1967, a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Wentworth Silkstone Colliery, list of collieries/pits etc. 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.

The formal inquiry was opened on the 30th June at the Miners’ Institution, Hoyland Common near Birdwell and resulted in “The report on the circumstances attending the explosion at Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery on the 30th. At about 1.45, after Slack had made his report and went to the pit bottom, and when Clayton was alone in the box-hole, there was a rush of wind from the workings and a reversal of air in the Main Level.

The main haulage road into the workings ran from No. Meanwhile, all the men had safely left No.2 Section but the remaining eleven in No.2 Section were found to be dead. 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. Fisher’s gate, there was Clarke-Stevenson electric coal cutter.

A walk in one of Yorkshire's famous coal mining regions Coal from the famous ‘Silkstone seam’ - named after the village where deposits were found near the surface - was valued for its quality.

The inquest and inquiry were thorough but no witnesses were called for the Miners’ Federation, Mr. Pope and Mottram concluded their report by saying: The grave question of criminal responsibility for the deaths occasioned by the explosion was answered by the jury in favour of the Management.

Wealthy landowners started a ‘black gold’ rush and poor workers migrated from across the country to … 1, 2, 3, and 4. and is far, far from complete! Wentworth Silkstone Collieries (1919) Ltd. (Sheet 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield, 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SE311034, 53° 31' 34" N, 1° 31' 51" W, 1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. The Athersley Whinmoor District, where the explosion occurred was the only part of the seam that was being worked.

A full set of 21 tubs had their buffers locked at the end nearest the face. There were 200 approved electric hand lamp of the Gray Sussmann Type, 700 approved oil safety lamps which were bonnetted Mueselers and 1,022 unemployed oil safety lamps which were unbonnetted Mueselers. The Hoyland Silkstone Colliery was situated at Platts Common in Hoyland, close to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line near Birdwell.

The main level was lit by electric lamps from the pit bottom to a point 210 yards inbye. All the lamps were re-lit at the surface and after the explosion 13 unbonnetted, 5 bonnetted and 3 electric lamps were found in the No.2 section. No.2 was also an upcast shaft and used a separate fan to keep the goaf of the former workings clear of gas. Wentworth Silkstone, Stainborough, Nr. Two of the 26 men under Slack’s charge, Harvey and Lang went to work at 10 a.m. and six others who were killed in the explosion went into the workings at 1 p.m. During the morning work went on as usual and preparations were made to clear the face and move forward the cables, conveyors and other equipment. The colliery engineer, Frank Faure Mairet was in the engine house at the surface when he saw the automatic circuit breaker trip indicating that there had been a surge of current.

Fisher’s gate and was a disc type machine made by Messrs. Clarke and Stevenson and had made a cut 4 feet 6 inches deep by 5 inches in the holing dirt below the seam. The jury trust that the Home Office will give instructions so that the Management will be more careful in the future. For 1,200 yards the haulage was by endless rope driven by an engine at the surface. Beyond the terminal wheel the haulage was done by horses and this part of the road was known as No.2 Level.

Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the, 1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian. An inspection was made of the workings by the officials and others and it was found that an explosion had taken place in the No.2 section.
The water percolated from the roof from the Silkstone waste 67 yards above. By 5 p.m. the information was telephoned to Mr. H.A. 3 and 4 Topside Slants, John Thomas Fisher, who had been seriously injured and later died, was being brought out by two men, Harvey and Lang who, at the time of the explosion had been working in te dummy gate of No.4 Topside Slant and had escaped uninjured. © Northern Mine Research Society | Registered Charity Number - 326704. 2 and 3 Topside Slants. As well as these officials there was chief engineer, Frank Faure Mairet who was in charge of the electrical apparatus and Albert Otway as the electrical foreman. WHARNCLIFFE SILKSTONE. An additional shaft was underway at that time heading a further 100 yards below the Parkgate. Some of the drivers of the coal-cutters had written authority to adjust the apparatus.

(extracted from an excellent website produced by A N Bridgewater covering Mining in North Derbyshire and other aspects of local history). Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre. A steam engine was held in reserve and was used periodically when the valves of the gas engine had to be cleaned.

The electrical power cable was blown down and disconnected from a junction box in the No.2 Level. The main level right from the pit bottom was damp and the floor wet. At the face immediately on the low side of J.T. From that part it travelled down part of the coal face traversed by the explosion to the working places beyond. Two inspections were made of all the workings by Slack and Clayton. 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. 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.

The final report was presented to Right Honourable Secretary of State for the Home Department on the 11th November 1914.


The celebrations were fulsome and optimistic: The Silkstone seam was officially opened on 29th December …

A winding engine of 40 Horse Power was erected to work the Parkgate seam, along with workshops and workers cottages. No.3 was a similar distance from No.1 Pit and was the main upcast shaft.


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