July, 1893. The unveiling of a statue to commemorate The Oaks Mining Disaster, in Barnsley Town Centre today (Sunday). But it is also about hope. A short distance from the bottom of this shaft there was a staple pit driven through the Wheatley Seam to the Blocking Bed. Aldwarke Main Colliery Rotherham, 1875. Methane Explosion caused by shotfiring. The inquiry thought it very likely that the gas had been ignited by one of the naked lights hanging at the landing. The distance from the surface to the New Hards was about 115 yards, from the New Hards to the Wheatley, 265 yards and from the Wheatley to the Blocking Bed, 25 yards. Mining & Miners Leaving school early, Brian's first job was in professional football, then in local government before starting a career in teaching and Further Education. Some notable disasters either for their effect outside the region or scale: He has also appeared on BBC Radio Sheffield on many occasions and has made contributions to BBC Radio 4, BBC and ITV local news programmes. The lookers on now being numerous shrieked in terror. England. A message was sent instantly to Mr. Scott, the manager. While working on the project, Mr Ibbeson discovered one of his own relatives, George Ibbeson, died in the tragedy. Barnsley Team Leader: TBC Team Members: This is the index to all mining disasters in Yorkshire. Mr. Ingham had arrived at the pit early in the afternoon and superintended the proceedings we have described. Of the nine above mentioned Joshua Ashton died two hours later and John Heywood, though most assiduously and carefully nursed, died on Thursday night. His recent books include Yorkshire Mining Veterans, South Yorkshire Mining Disasters (Vol 1) and Lord Mason. On the 4th July he was working with ten or eleven others in Smith’s ending for about two hours after the explosion not knowing that something had happened. Local History This and many other interviews with former miners are deposited in the National Mining Museum for England's oral history archive. The statue - which cost £125,000 - was paid for in just under a year through collection buckets in supermarkets, shopping centres and working men’s clubs, and the sale of half a dozen models of the statue in resin bronse. 4th. Send a private message to the Profile Manager, Public Comments: July, 1893. The Rector was in London. In December 1866 a colliery in Barnsley was ripped apart by a series of explosions over two days, killing at least 361 men and boys, in what remains England's worst mining disaster. They were in groups, some of them looking as of calmly asleep, some on their knees, one with a piece of chalk in his hand, with which he had written on a corve a message to his wife. They are also of the opinion that this pit ought not to be worked in future with naked lights at the bottom of the shaft. The explosion ignited some wood on the landing or staging and the conductors from the Wheatley Seam to the Blocking bed, 25 yards below. He was Joseph Mallinson. Welcome to Yorkshire Mining Disasters . Legislation, inspection and knowledge of the main causes of accidents, especially concerning emissions of gas and explosions, combined to reduce the chances of major mishaps. Yet through much of the century coal mining continued to be a highly dangerous occupation, day-to-day fatalities occurring on a regular basis; and the bigger disasters: at Maltby Main, Bentley, North Gawber and Wharncliffe Woodmoor, attracted widespread media attention, causing immense suffering to bereaved families and communities. The mouth of the pit was closed and water was turned into the old bed below the present workings to extinguish the fire. The disaster so shocked public opinion that the law was changed banning children under 10 from working underground. There was nothing to hinder the removal of the dead from the pit, but the sad task was deferred till nightfall, and the Parochial Hall was fitted up for the reception of the bodies. The pit formed a part of the Thornhill Colliery and was the property of Mr. T.E. Customers who bought this title also bought... South Yorkshire Mining Disasters: Volume II, click here for international delivery rates. The people around us, the mining village, we have all moved forward, it has become a vibrant town.”. Ingham who lived at Blake Hall, near Mirfield. After an inspection of the pit after the explosion it was thought that only a small quantity of gas had ignited near the landing in the downcast shaft at the Wheatley seam. a telegram was dispatched to him summoning him back at once. About twelve months before the explosion, masons were called in to make apertures through the brick lining of the downcast shaft just under the landing in the shaft at the Wheatley seam. The brave men, baffled in their attempts to descend the shaft by the pumping shaft, and succeeded in reaching the pit only to discover that an explosion had undoubtedly taken place and a fire was raging not far off. as the shaft was driven through a fault gas did issue from it and Jesse Taylor, the former manager, had tried to use the gas by the insertion of a pipe for lighting the porches leading to the Wheatley seam in the downcast shaft. He received it about 6 o’clock and started home by the next train arriving at Thornhill about five o’clock on the following morning. July, 1893. The Mines Inspectors Report 1893. All hope of saving any alive from the pit seemed to have been given up. It was thought that the gas had come from a feeder behind the brick walling of the shaft and had collected under and about the scaffold.

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