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Springwell Colliery Disaster, 1837
Springwell Colliery Disaster, 1837
Press Cutting - York Herald
[ Originally posted by Paul Parker on Springwell Facebook Website. ]
SPRINGWELL COLLIERY DISASTER
( Wednesday, 6th December 1837 )
Affleck, Andrew (27)
Banks, Forster (26)
Beedling, James (22)
Fenwick, Mark
Fenwick, William Jnr
Fenwick, William Snr
Hedley, Thomas (15)
Henderson, James (30)
Hood, Samuel (12)
Hunter, George (17)
Mason, Joseph
McGee, Alexander (50)
McGee, George (18)
Price, Edward (40)
Price, Robert (24)
Ramsey, Joseph (37)
Ridley, G. (16)
Ritchie, Joseph (30)
Robson, Lionel (17)
Rushie, Joseph (30)
Rushie, Luke (18)
Simpson, George (31)
Wakefield, Todd (32)
Wear T. (50)
24 of the 27 miners who lost their lives in the 1837 Springwell Colliery Disaster
[ Names researched by Ian Winstanley. ]
N.B. Just 4 years earlier - Thursday, 9th May 1833 - an explosion at this colliery took the lives of 47 Springwell Miners.