Museum
Friends of Durham Mining Museum
Events Calendar
e-Books and Books for sale
Photograph Gallery
Document Archive
Discussion Forums
What's new in the site

Mining History
Colliery Index
Colliery Maps
Company Overviews
Who's Who
Mineral Information
Educational Material
Bibliographye
Statistics
Workers/Employee Lists
Notes for Family Historians

Disaster Reports
Names of those killed
Disasters in the 1700s
Disasters in the 1800s
Disasters in the 1900s
Memorials
Awards for Gallantry

Links to other sites of interest
Industrial Heritage Days Out
Former www.pitwork.net site

View our Guestbook

Index to site

Contact and address details

  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  23rd January 1866
Colliery:  High Brooks, Park Lane
Cause:  Explosion of firedamp
Lives Lost:  30

 Catterall, Richard, aged 19, Drawer
 Ellison, Thomas, aged 29, Drawer
 Fairhurst, Edward, aged 24, Collier
 Fairhurst, Thomas, aged 30, Drawer
 Fairhurst, Timothy, aged 48, Collier
 Hart, John, aged 15, Jigger
 Hewitt, William, aged 19, Drawer
 Hilcock, Seth, aged 30, Collier
 Hill, Thomas, aged 38, Collier
 Hurst, John, aged 28, Collier
 Leyland, James, aged 60, Collier
 Leyland, Robert, aged 26
 Liptrot, Samuel, aged 21, Dataller
 Lowe, Peter, aged 17, Drawer
 Marsh, John, aged 50, Collier
 Marsh, William, aged 17, Drawer
 Molyneaux, John, aged 18, Drawer
 Morris, James, aged 18, Drawer
 Oldfield, John, aged 20, Collier
 Parkinson, Michael, aged 17, Drawer
 Parkinson, Thomas, aged 40, Collier
 Pilling, James, aged 31, Collier
 Saunders, John, aged 30
 Shaw, John, aged 35, Collier
 Shepherd, John, aged 15, Drawer
 Sudworth, James, aged 24, Collier
 Sutton, William, aged 20, Collier
 Tollitt, George, aged 20, Drawer
 Unsworth, John, aged 22, Drawer
 
29 of 30 names found
 
Youngest: 15 years old ; Oldest: 60 ; Average: 27

Return Return   Return Return to Top


Mail:
Webmaster

Back

Home
Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000177
with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Copyright © 1999-2008 by The Durham Mining Museum and its contributors
Registered Charity No: 1110608
Page last updated: 06 Aug 2008


Search

Print