Of Common Lane. The pit was 280 yards deep to the Trencherbone seam and over 100 men had been lowered to their work when the accident happened. Burial: 15 Dec 1858 St George’s, Tyldesley. There were four men in the cage and two in the sump. 2nd. The Colliery Guardian, 19th October 18813, p.627. Lengthy litigation followed resulting in a £3,000 fine for Green's company.[9]. BARLOW James 31. [15], In this part of Lancashire a coal seam is referred to as a mine and the, List of Collieries in Astley and Tyldesley, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tyldesley_Coal_Company&oldid=938534210, Defunct mining companies of the United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 January 2020, at 20:11. The worst mining disaster in Tyldesley occurred at Yew Tree Colliery on 11 December 1858. [nb 1]The Yew Tree Colliery was smaller with 118 below ground and 23 above. Percy, of Wigan, consulting engineer to the colliery, had made a careful examination of the ring that attached the rope to the cage and told the court that there was more clearance between the cages and the landings than was usual in any colliery. Gin Pit worked the Crombouke and Six Foot mines. HINDLEY Thomas 18. Mr. C.M. Of  Moss Lane Burial: 15 Dec 1858 St George’s, Tyldesley. The explosion took place in the Crombuke mine at the Yew Tree pit of the colliery killed 25 men and boys and was the property of Green Holland and Company. The colliery's railway expanded at the same time as the pits were developed. The engine tenter, George Pent, was at the pit but the banksman had not yet arrived. It was delivered in 1867 and named Tyldesley. Two men John Edwards and Robert Evans heard the cried of their ill-fated comrades. Of Elliott Street. ASPINALL Hugh 30. An explosion of firedamp caused by a safety lamp cost 25 lives, the youngest 11 and the oldest 35 years of age. © Northern Mine Research Society | Registered Charity Number - 326704. In 1896 Cleworth Hall employed 304 men underground and 46 surface workers. Of Well Street. NELSON. Tyldesley, Lancashire. In 1923 only Cleworth Hall and Peelwood, which together employed over 1,400 workers, were operating. [4][5] The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) built a line from Eccles to Wigan via Tyldesley and the Tyldesley Loopline via Leigh to Kenyon Junction in 1864 providing the impetus for the exploitation of coal seams in Tyldesley and Greens Sidings were constructed for the company to the east of Tyldesley Station. The colliery was the property of Mr. William Ramsden of Shackerley and six men lost their lives when the rope to the cage broke sending them down the shaft and into the sump. December, 1858. Nevertheless, 1881 was not a bad year for mining accidents, with only 27 explosions in mines in the British Isles … [7], Cleworth Hall Colliery was sunk under the Cleworth Hall estate to the east of Yew Tree in 1874. Of Well Street. Shakerley Colliery Nelson Pit Shaft Accident – Tyldesley – 1883. Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre. (A different pit belonging to William Ramsden was also named Shakerley Colliery. The Astley Green Disaster – June 6th 1939. An explosion of firedamp caused by a safety lamp cost 25 lives, the youngest 11 and the oldest 35 years of age. Tyldesley Coal Company was a coal mining company formed in 1870 in Tyldesley,[1] on the Manchester Coalfield in the historic county of Lancashire, England that had its origins in Yew Tree Colliery, the location for a mining disaster that killed 25 men and boys in 1858. © Northern Mine Research Society | Registered Charity Number - 326704. In 1933 Cleworth Hall mined the Trencherbone, Haigh Yard, Cannel, Three Feet, Four Feet and Arley coal seams and employed over 900 workers. Burial: 15 Dec 1858 St George’s, Tyldesley. Newspaper clipping from the News Chronicle on the day of the accident. Burial: 15 Dec 1858 St George’s, TyldesleyÊ. A fault caused the company to sink another shaft, the Daisy Pit, to win coal from seams close to the surface. He ran away and when he returned he saw that the cage had gone into the sump. Beatrice, another 4-coupled saddle tank, was bought from Vulcan Foundry in Newton le Willows in 1877, the same year that Jessie was delivered from Walker Brothers in Wigan. December, 1858. [13][14], The locomotives owned by the Tyldesley Coal Company had to pass under the Manchester Road bridge which had restricted headroom and were built to a reduced loading gauge. [2] At the Tyldesley end, the tramway was worked by cable down the steep slope of the Tyldesley Banks and horse-drawn wagons completed the journey. Astley and Tyldesley Salt Company: The modern colliery was sunk in 1866 in an area where coal had previously been mined. The company built a brickworks at Combermere and the railway to it operated until the mid-1930s. When they were worked out the Brassey mine was developed. Steam, household and manufacturing coal were mined from the Seven Foot mine. The pit was 280 yards deep to the Trencherbone seam and over 100 … At the inquest into the disaster conducted by Mr. J.B. On the day before the explosion, the fireman for the part of the workings where the disaster took place, had, in the words of the Inspector, “having the night before been celebrating an advance of wages” failed to arrive at the pit in time to make his examination and the men were allowed down the pit.

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