Professor Statham supported the theory the manager was that there was fall at the bottom level of the 8th slit before the disaster which interrupted the ventilation and that at the same time, there was an abnormal and local emission of gas. After being retreated for 55 yards, water from the Oaks rock above came through the roof and the faces stopped. . Mr. Kimmins, the manager, had to get from Uttoxeter and arrived at the colliery about 6 p.m. and at once went underground to the North-West where he met Payne, Humphrys, Hall and others. In each case, the other findings will be in terms that the deceased died on the 4th March 1945, in the underground workings of the Meltonfield seam of the Manvers Main Collieries, Ltd., at Wath-on Dearne in the West Riding of Yorkshire fro the causes already stated and that the deceased was involved in the early hours of the morning in an explosion of gas, firedamp, in the said underground workings. Wroes first inspection in the North-West was made about 12.30 p.m. and he found all in good order. Around the time the miners were reaching the Barnsley bed the colliery company began building housing to accommodate its workers and their families. Manvers Colliery by William Edward Leadley (1902-1973), 1966, from Dearne Valley College [Skip to content] [Skip to main navigation] [Skip to quick links] [Go to accessibility information] Art UK has updated its cookies policy. slit and went down into the bottom level to get to the men but on reaching with two yards of the 4s heading, the air was thick with dust and he could just see that there had been a fall on the chain conveyor. Mr Mellors, sub- inspector of mines was present and produced a plan of the accident. November, p.667. Girders had been stripped out of parts of both headings, stoppings blown in in the 9th 10th and 11th slits from return to intake. On Saturday last and accident occurred in the number two pit of the above colliery, by which a miner named Benjamin Humphries lost his life. Train operators. Free delivery for many products! Mr Watson said he lost track of his paintings once the collieries began to close. Witness was about a mile off when he heard of the accident, when you arrive there the deceased had been got out, was being put on the ambulance to be taken out of the jinney. Witness had examined the place, and he thought deceased had been carrying too much weight of roof. slit and just short of the 12th., the lower level had reached the 11th. There was common agreement on the following points: 1) the explosion was one of firedamp and coal dust played little or no part, 2) it originated in 7s heading in the vicinity of the Joy Loader and. Ayscough said he expected the pumpman to go into the first pumphouse down the plane, look at the sump there and then go to the second pumphouse and inspect the sump and if this was full, to start pumping, or if it was not, to go down to his air pump. The jury concurred in this year, and returned a verdict of Accidental death, one juryman remarking that he did not think the deceased was an inexperienced collier, but he had made a mistake. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for N.C.B. The quality of the information is lacking in some fields and is sourced from lists of victims from mining disasters, periodicals and papers of the time and many people who have offered their help. These served the Haigh Moor and Meltonfield seams which they intersected at 347 years and 122 yards respectively. In the top level the conveyor drive head at the top of the 11th slit had been blown outbye and the switch panels and main cable damaged. Manvers No.1 Colliery. It was suggested that breaks along this rib would pass through the strata up to the Meltonfield seam. * Acton Hall 1985. In 2008 the British Canoe Union took a 250-year lease on Manvers Lake. I have personally seen that the compressed air hoses or electric trailing cables are completely disconnected from ALL gate conveyors, face conveyors, coal-cutters, rotary boring machines and all other face machinery. He retreated by the 5th. He was with deceased about two hours. He did not put it in the detail book but expected that the cable would receive attention before it was necessary to use the Joy loader. He adjusted his lamp to make a test for gas but breathing had become very difficult and he did not stay. On the following day the Inspectors, colliery officials and representatives of the men made a careful inspection of the workings. By the Inspector: the outset eight or nine pots that morning. Hi there! A Level Photography. Published: Saturday 09 February 1918 Newspaper: South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times The source of this material are the Mines Inspectors Record Of Accidents which has to be transcribed from hand written documents and any inaccuracies are mine arising from difficulties in reading the original. Pre-1850 there was no systematic recording of mining deaths. In Holmes opinion, this had been done by the explosion. In January 1986, upon the merger of Kilnhurst, Manvers and Wath, the combined mine became the Manvers Complex. Miner teaches a group of boys aged between 12 and 16 about mining in a classroom almost 600 yards below the surface of Manvers main colliery. Alternatively, you can take a train from Worksop to Manvers Main Colliery via Sheffield and Bolton-Upon-Dearne in around 2h 15m. NRA 16230 Albert Street Baptist Church, Newark. February 1945. The former delivered into a standage near the latter from which the main pump delivered the water to the shaft bottom. Coal cutting was done in 7s heading twice during the shift and once in the 6s heading. Art Photography. The company purchased the Kilnhurst Colliery in the 1940s but the company's coal mining activities ceased in 1946 with the nationalisation of the coal industry. Mexborough and Swinton Times November 6, 1891. It was insufficient, however, and Manvers closed on March 25th 1988. In the bottom level, no rails were laid, but there was a trolley or bogie with pneumatic tyres, one of which had been missing for some days and it was suggested that this might be used to transport material but there was no evidence that this had to be done. Only five of these reports were of gas in the North-West area and on one of these occasions the men were withdrawn. Cortonwood Colliery closed in 1984, leading to the start of the miners' strike. It had been extensively worked in the district, usually by the longwall advancing system and in comparison to other seams in the district was not considered gassy but there had been explosions in the seam at other collieries. The cause was an explosion of firedamp ignited by sparks from a damaged trailing cable. They then followed him in while he inspected the place of work. A nature reserve managed by the RSPB Old Moor Wetland Centre RSPB reserve containing the 45acre Manvers Lake was created and the rest of the site was developed for light industry and commerce with call centres for companies such as Ventura (bought out by CAPITA in 2011; CAPITA fully took over on 1 January 2012), TSC, T-Mobile and others occupying purpose-built units. of 1 He thought he was a man, and one who understood his business. MANVERS COLLIERY - HUDSWELL CLARKE 0-6-0ST LOCO. When Mr Watson was shown the paintings he said: "The memories came back of walking around the collieries. We are in search of the Manvers Main complex. With its closure, came the end of deep coal mining in Britain, and, effectively, the death of an industry that had, at one time, employed over 1.2 million people. Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. At about 12.30 a.m he started his inspection of the North-West and he estimated that from leaving the men at the bottom of the North Plane until rejoining them would take about 15 minutes and no more than twenty. There was slack cable in front of the loader and the cable got fast on a pommel screw. Shortly before this incident, Crossley proceeded up the heading to the top level where he found the fan had stopped which suggested to him that the current had tripped outbye. Manvers Main Colliery was a coal mine, sunk on land belonging to the Earl Manvers on the northern edge of Wath-upon-Dearne, between that town and Mexborough . It sparked off a strike. He did not know how long the deceased had worked in a pit. From the distance that he had to travel, it was evident that his examination must have been very hurried and there was doubt that he did in fact test for gas except at the fan. Immediately prior to nationalization, Manvers was owned by Manvers Main Collieries Ltd. After about an hour this team managed to get through and at 8.55 they found the body of Raymond Kelsey and those of J.W. May and finished on the 30th May 1945. After reporting to Mr. Wild what he had found, he enquired the time and was told it was 5 a.m. After the loader had been pulled forward by sylvesters a sufficient distance to free the cable and it was found, when it was examined, that the cable was punctured through one of the cores. The search for the body of Charles Leeman continued until the 16th of March. RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. He put the isolating switch into neutral and saw that all the other five switches were in neutral. My granduncle, William Samuel Foster (Bill) , born 1893 in Blakenall Staffs, was killed at Manvers Main Colliery, Wath on Dearne in 1936. James Pendlebury, Marie, said he worked with the deceased. At the 5th North, Wild and Ayscough met and with Ayscough were F. Maltby, J. Hallam and Jack Winder from the 8B face. Crossley saw that the rubber was punctured but he did not notice the exposed core. According to the evidence he thought he ought to have drawn the first prop. As soon as he saw the main belt there he realised that something was wrong because the belt was covered with a thin film of dust. He then returned to the 5th. The Senghenydd Colliery disaster occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913. Deceased had drawn 13 props when the fall of roofing took place. Ollitt, J. E. Kelsey and B.J. Mr. E.J. Cart. He could not imagine why he had not done so. August 1945. February 1945, when the deputy, Dobson, found gas at 8 to 8.30 a.m. and three percent firedamp was present in the North-West top heading, due to a breakdown of the electric fan. Rescue teams continued working in relays at the fall on the top level and to secure the entrance to the workings. On 4 March 1945, an accident caused the death of five underground workers. Manvers Main Colliery was the property of the Manvers Main Collieries, Limited and there were four shafts at the colliery but in connection with the accident only Nos. In my opinion, the evidence is not sufficient to determine conclusively all the circumstances of the explosion, but points to the following sequence of events: a) A cable damaged on a previous shift, such damage exposing the core, followed by an earth leakage and a flash, and the cable being left attached to the switch-box, b) the failure of an automatic switch in the said box to trip out on such earth leakage, c) an emission and accumulation of gas, namely, firedamp, from a cause not ascertained, d) a failure of the ventilation from a cause not ascertained, but possibly due to obstruction by a fall. of 1 Industrial Buildings. The Scarborough-based artist was reunited with his paintings, including this one of Manvers Colliery, in 2012, when the National Coal Mining Museum told him it had owned them since 1997. * Allerton Bywater 1994. This page was last edited on 26 June 2022, at 17:49. Upon nationalisation a plan to combine Barnburgh, Kilnhurst, Manvers Main and Wath Main was conceived. A 9-hole golf course and driving range, hotel, restaurants and residential home were built after plans for a multiplex cinema was objected to by Barnsley Council. For ventilation and inspection purposes the North-West development area formed part of the North district, the lamp station for which was at 5s junction on the north Plane. They had descended at 6.25 a.m. and they proceeded, taking Maltby with them. He had worked nowhere else, to his knowledge. Create an account. Capitalisation is ignored so "BROWN", "Brown" and "brown" are all treated the same. He thought that was the right way. Previous. "These sites have all disappeared now apart from Maltby. Four men were moving the chain conveyor gearhead down the 7s heading from the top level by means of the Joy loader. 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