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Ambrose Todd

Age:   25
Died:   16th May 1934
Accident:   16th May 1934
Year Born:   abt. 1909
Colliery:   Deaf Hill
Company:  
Occupation:   Stoneman
Notes:  
killed by a fall of stone, married, of Council Houses, Deaf Hil
Buried:   St. Paul's Churchyard, Trimdon Station
Description

Another accident causing the deaths of two persons occurred at Deaf Hill Colliery, Durham. They were sitting in front of the tailgate pack at a roadhead on a longwall machine-cut conveyor face in a seam 2 ft. 6 in. thick. A large fall of the blue shale roof came away from a hitch leader and a concealed slip over the pack, canting out four planks or straps and several props and headtrees.

Tombstone

Trimdon Station — St. Paul's Churchyard




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Names on this tombstone
NameDiedAgeBorn
Ambrose TODD  16th May 1934  25  1909 
Mary Jane TODD       
Related Newspaper Articles
21 May 1934 News in Brief (The Times)
Sources
  • 1934 Mines Inspectors Report
  • Church/Cemetery photograph (T-03248-06-0002) © Kev Duncan
  • Tombstone photograph (T-03291-06-0064) © Bob Dunn
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