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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1420 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Trimdon Grange Colliery accidents and Thornley Colliery

Covering Dates: 1875-1913

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Records given:

24 September 2003 Acc: 2979(D)

Catalogue Contents


List of persons killed at Trimdon Grange Colliery from 1848 to 1885, giving name, age, occupation, place and nature of accident, and date, n.d., 1886
(6 papers)


List of men and boys killed in the explosion at Trimdon Grange Colliery, 16 February 1882, giving name, occupation, age, place, and cause of death, n.d.
(3 papers)


Letter from S. Tate, Trimdon Grange Colliery, to William Armstrong, Wingate Grange, concerning his inspection of a shaft at Trimdon, the condition of the tubbing, walling, brattice, and the general state of the workings, 21 November 1892
(3 papers)


List of men on active service and in receipt of rent, 1914 - 1918, giving name, occupation, address, and whether killed in action, n.d.
(1 paper)


Statement by George Fishburn, Deputy, Harvey Seam, Syphon Way, Trimdon Grange, giving his account of the rescue of 5 men and a putter boy from the right hand flat, Trimdon Colliery, 21 May 1913
(1 paper)


Report by John Pattison, manager, concerning his inspection on 21 May [n.y.], of 1st left hand place in the cross-cut flat, Syphon Way, Harvey Seam, n.d., 1913
(1 paper)


Report by T. Owens, concerning his inspection, with John Pattison, of the hitch place, 1st left hand place and cross cut flat, Syphon Way, and the events that led up to the escape of gas when the blower came off, 21 May [n.y.] 1913
(1 paper)


Statement by George Tempest, Deputy, fore shift, concerning his inspection of the 1st left at cross cut flat, 21 May 1913
(1 paper)


Report by William Willis, master shifter, on 21 May 1913, concerning his inspection of the hitch place and 1st left, 27 May 1913
(1 paper)


Report by William Ford, Deputy in the Harvey seam, Syphon Way, concerning the events leading up to the gas blower coming off, and the safe evacuation of the men, 21 May 1913
(1 paper)


Plan of a section of Trimdon Grange Colliery, showing a drift from the Harvey to the Busty seam, in Syphon flat, where a blower of gas came off, 21 May 1913 No scale
(1 plan, 44 cm. x 42 cm., paper, ink)


Memorandum from M. Barrass, Manager, Wheatley Hill Colliery, Thornley, to Mr. Laidler, concerning the licence for storing mixed explosives, 13 November 1913
(1paper)


Order in council relating to stores licensed for mixed explosives, 27 November 1875
(1 paper)


Plan showing the position and surroundings of a proposed explosive store for Thornley Colliery, n.d. Scale: 132 feet to 1 inch [1:1584]
(1 plan, 70 cm. x 52 cm., waxed paper, ink)