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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  6th August 1936
Colliery:  Wharncliffe Woodmore
Cause:  Explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by sparking at starting switch or commutator of the loader motor
Lives Lost:  58

 Abbott, Joseph William
 Allott, Walter
 Bailey, Charles
 Bateman, Arthur
 Bird, Arthur
 Birkhead, Henry
 Boyd, Lewis
 Brekley, William
 Brown, John
 Brown, Samuel
 Bullingham, John
 Chapman, Cecil
 Clarkson, Victor
 Cooper, Frederick, Ripper
 Dalby, Ernest
 Donnelly, Jonn
 Duerden, Walter
 Ellis, William Alfred
 Farmery, George
 Fletcher, John, Deputy
 Foster, Irvin
 Green, James
 Grimshaw, Richard Brook
 Hadfield, Frank
 Haigh, A.
 Hall, Herbert, Dataller
 Hatfield, Harry
 Hepworth, Horace
 Hodgson, Benjamin
 Hope, Joseph Edward, Deputy
 Houlson, Enoch, Assistant bricklayer
 Ismay, Charles Edward
 Jackson, John
 Jones, John David
 Kirk, Samuel
 Lee, Henry
 Miller, James Robert, Overman
 Owens, Owen, Machineman
 Parkin, Charles
 Poole, J. W.
 Proctor, William
 Roscoe, John
 Row, Harold
 Scargill, Ernest
 Senior, William Henry
 Smith, Joseph Thomas
 Smith, Walter
 Thompson, Alexander
 Thompson, George
 Tompkins, William Alfred
 Travis, H.
 Waugh, John
 White, Archie
 Whiteley, William
 Wilson, George
 Wright, Henry
 Wright, Richard, Ripper
 
57 of 58 names found

 

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