Shropshire Mining Disasters

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Location: Shropshire, England

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Welcome to Shropshire Mining Disasters

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This is the index to documented mining disasters in Shropshire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ^[1][2][3]. ^[4]. Names are in the process of being added when identified.

Shropshire Date Colliery / Pit Location Fatalities Cause 06-03-1858 Lower Spring Pit Shropshire 2 Explosion 04-10-1858 Lord Forester's Estate Broseley 1 (Lawrence Lloyd) Pit shaft fall 14-10-1858 Aston Lime Works near Newport 3 (Plant, Maddox, Jarvis) stone fall 23-05-1859 Pudley Hill Old Park 1 (Thomas Amies) Pit roof fall 19-01-1861 Grange pit Madeley 4 (Evans, Jones, Guy, Benjamin Maiden) explosion 13-07-1861 Spout pit Dawley 1 (William Jones) explosion 29-12-1862 Dark Lane Priorslee 12 cage failure 27-09-1864 Brick Kiln Leasow Madeley 9 (Edward Wallett 52, John Tranter 37, Joseph Marden 18, John Jones 14, Benjamin Davies 35, William Onions 12, John Farr 14, William Jarrett 18, Francis Cookson 13) chain failure 15-05-1867 Grange Pit Dawley 4 (Shepherd, Thompson, Briscoe, Taylor) brake failure 6-12-1872 Springwell Dawley 8 chain break 11-09-1875 Donnington_Wood Donnington Wood 11 Fire 1884 Dark Lane Priorslee 2 Explosion 07-09-1895 Lilleshall Pits Priorslee 1 (Benjamin Thomas Rushton) horse and slab fall 1898 Pudley pit Old Park 1 (Richard Rowlands) pit fall 03-06-1899 Snailbeach Minsterley 1 (John Grove) pit fall 23-06-1899 Granville pits Donnington Wood 1 (John Fenn) pit roof fall 08-07-1899 Station Pit Oakengates 1 (William Knight) suffocation black damp 30-09-1899 Snailbeach Minsterley 1 (Richard Crowther) cage crush 12-07-1902 Stafford pits St Georges 1 (William George Cartwright) beam failure, pit fall 25-11-1902 Stafford pits St Georges 1 (John Samuels) burning 02-01-1905 Highley Shropshire 1 (Alfred Davies) burning 10-11-1906 Meadow pit Madeley 1 child (Arthur Turner 8) scalding 08-07-1908 Barracks pit Donnington 1 (T. Jones) brake failure 10-12-1910 Kemberton Madeley 7 (George Gough, Arthur Wilton, Richard Rogers, Thomas Glenister, Alphonso Stanley, Randolph Cecil Miles, Albert Jones) cage rope failure 21-01-1911 Court Field Madeley 1 (Benjamin Bennett) pit shaft fall 04-02-1911 Kemberton Madeley 1 (George Edward Griffiths) electrocution 28-11-1911 Freehold pit St Georges 1 (George Woolley) pit roof fall 04-06-1920 Moat Hall near Shrewsbury 1 (David Titley) stone fall 30-05-1940 Farley Quarry Much Wenlock 4 (Cooke, Evans, Rawlings, Fewtrell) electrocution 25-07-1940 Sand pit Buildwas 2 (John Bruce, John Hewlett Heath) sand fall

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/shropshire/donnington-wood-colliery-fire-lilleshall-1875/ (accessed 1-6-2022)
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Springwell Pit disaster," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Springwell_Pit_disaster&oldid=1059988653 (accessed June 1, 2022).
3. ↑ https://www.shropshirecmc.org.uk/papers/index.html "What the Papers Said - Old News Paper Items" (accessed 1-6-2022)
4. ↑ https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-nine-men-of-madeley.html (accessed 6 Oct 2023)