Durham Mining Museum - John Brown

John Brown

Age:	37
Died:	18^th Apr 1882
Accident:	18^th Apr 1882 1:15 a.m.
Year Born:	abt. 1845
Colliery:	Tudhoe
Company:	Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd.
Occupation:
Notes:	recovered alive but died from severe burns ; killed in the 1882 explosion (ignition probably caused by naked light)
Buried:	[not known]


Description

The text of the report from the Mines Inspector into this disaster is available in the Disaster Reports section of this website.

Extracts from the Inquest into this death.


Disaster Memorial


Memorial

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Names in this memorial picture
Name	Died	Age	Born
Robert ARTUS	18^th Apr 1882	45	1837
George BOWES	18^th Apr 1882	48	1834
John BROWN	18^th Apr 1882	37	1845
John CHERRY	18^th Apr 1882	46	1836
Andrew COLDWELL	18^th Apr 1882	40	1842
Joseph Charles RICHARDS	18^th Apr 1882	32	1850
Michael RIVERS	18^th Apr 1882	22	1860
James RYMER	18^th Apr 1882	38	1844
James SHAW	18^th Apr 1882	49	1833
William THOMAS	18^th Apr 1882	46	1836


Related Newspaper Articles

19 Apr 1882	Fatal Colliery Explosion (The Times)
20 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
21 Apr 1882	The Colliery Explosions (The Times)
22 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
24 Apr 1882	The Colliery Explosions (The Times)
25 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
30 Apr 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
25 May 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)
30 Aug 1882	The Tudhoe Colliery Explosion (The Times)


Further Reading

Official Report into the 1882 Tudhoe Colliery Disaster (C.3327)
Explosions in Coal Mines by W. N. & J. B. Atkinson, published in 1886


Sources

Tombstone(s) and Memorial in York Road Cemetery, Spennymoor


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