Ellington Colliery

1937, 06 Jul - Main, Five Quarter seams abandoned

Current Status - Colliery closed and site cleared

Anderson, William Ralph Brown, 30 Jan 1932, (accident: 22 Jan 1932), aged 63, Stoneman, septicaemia

Armstrong, James William, 20 Jan 1938, aged 38, Conveyor Chock-drawer, fall of stone, address: 99 Juliet Street, Ashington [More information ...]

Barker, Raymond, 27 Jan 1936, (accident: 22 Jan 1936), aged 14, Heap Lad, crushed between tubs

Bell, Robert, 17 Mar 1949, aged 28, Drawer, killed by a fall of stone

Bell, Walter Lorraine, 22 May 1929, aged 56, Overman, killed by a fall of stone

Bellerby, Joseph Robinson, 13 May 1914, (accident: 12 May 1914), aged 44, Coal Filler, deceased was preparing to set a plank on a machine face, when a stone 3 feet by 2 feet by 3 inches fell on to his neck and shoulders and stunned him; he had filled the coal out 3 feet 6 inches beyond the last plank, and as the roof contained a number of glazed slips, deceased should have set a prop before commencing to notch a hole in the solid coal for the plank; he died the following day

Black, Robert, 17 Oct 1959, aged 49, Stoneman, coronary thrombosis

Brown, George, 08 Apr 1914, (accident: 03 Apr 1914), aged 57, Coal Filler, Deceased was working by himself at the time of accident. A workman heard him shout, and found him under a stone 6 feet by 3 feet by 5 inches, which had fallen from the roof. The fall was due in all probability to badly set timber. There was a slip on one side, but this continued some distance outbye, and should have been guarded against.

Brown, James, 28 Nov 1948, aged 54, Datal, silico-tuberculosis

Brown, James Thomas, 08 Jun 1954, aged 54, Composite, Asphyxia

Brown, John Graham, 16 Jul 1925, (accident: 15 Jul 1925), aged 55, Chargeman, killed by a fall of stone

Buglas, Thomas, 04 Jun 1941, aged 46, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Buxton, Robert, 29 Jul 1927, (accident: 15 Mar 1927), aged 29, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

Chrisp, Joshua Jefferson, 04 Aug 1927, (accident: 14 Jul 1927), aged 44, Coal Cutter, killed by a fall of stone

Collpitts, Michael, 03 Nov 1980, (accident: 31 Oct 1980), aged 32, Salvage Worker, fall of stone in an old continuous mining district

Cowton, Archie, 22 Mar 1924, (accident: 11 Mar 1924), aged 16, Rope Lad, kicked by boy

Coyne, Patrick, 03 Apr 1923, aged 49, Labourer, killed by an engine

Daly, John, 18 Apr 1956, (accident: 14 Nov 1945), aged 78, Underground Datal Worker, killed by a fall of stone

Dean, Michael, 04 Jan 1921, aged 23, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Dixon, Thomas, 13 Jun 1916, (accident: 18 May 1916), aged 49, Hewer, suicide

Douglass, Matthew William, 13 Oct 1941, aged 32, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington

Forsythe, James E. B., 14 Jun 1961, aged 52, Tub Manipulator, crushed by mine car

Foster, Christopher, 21 Oct 1937, aged 14, Rope Lad, crushed by tub

Graham, James, 31 May 1954, (accident: 06 Oct 1946), aged 66, Datal, pneumoconiosis

Green, John P., 05 Nov 1960, (accident: 17 Oct 1960), aged 49, Transit Hand, killed by a fall of stone

Hedley, James, 08 Jun 1972, aged 37, Power Loader, killed by a fall of stone

Henderson, George, 05 Jun 1934, (accident: 23 Feb 1932), aged 38, Drawer, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington

Herron, John M., 13 Mar 1960, (accident: 07 Mar 1960), aged 50, Composite, killed by a fall of stone

Hetherington, John Cuthbert, 06 Dec 1962, (accident: 22 Nov 1962), aged 30, Power Loader, killed by a fall of stone

Hutchinson, James Lawrence, 29 Apr 1912, (accident: 16 Apr 1912), aged 23, Timber loader, he was riding on the rear buffers of an empty iron tub, when it left the way; in falling he caught the tub with his jaw, making an incised wound, from which he died on the 29th inst.

Jeffreys, Herbert, 30 Nov 1942, aged 45, Coal Cutter, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington

Jeffreys, Robert, 22 Oct 1930, aged 27, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

Jobson, John, 17 Jan 1941, (accident: 16 Jan 1941), aged 33, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Johnstone, James, 17 Jan 1927, aged 24, Filler, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington

Keyes, John Robert Eastlake, 13 Nov 1962, aged 18, Transit Hand, run over by loco

Laidlaw, James William, 06 Feb 1975, aged 37, Power Loader, killed by a fall of coal

Lewins, Cuthbert J., 10 Feb 1959, aged 34, Transit hand, killed by a fall of stone

Mason, Robert, 1932, crushed by roof fall - died 24 hours later [approximate date]

Maughan, William, 08 Jul 1924, (accident: 22 Nov 1920), aged 33, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Moore, G., 02 Mar 1955, aged 47, Platelayer, struck by engine

Moore, Leo, 03 May 1935, aged 15, Driver, killed by tubs, Buried: Lynemouth Cemetery

Morgan, Patrick, 18 Aug 1915, killed by a fall of stone

Nicholson, John George, 11 Oct 1934, aged 43, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Norton, Andrew Mason, 03 Feb 1953, (accident: 29 Oct 1948), aged 65, Underground Datal Worker, crushed by tubs

Patten, John, 09 May 1968, aged 55, Power Loader, killed by a fall of stone

Pierce, Edward, 12 Dec 1921, (accident: 26 Aug 1921), aged 57, Shifter, killed by a fall of stone

Price, David William, 23 Jul 1947, aged 32, Composite, killed by a fall of stone

Pringle, John G. W., 27 Mar 1945, aged 31, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

Reavley, Thomas, 18 Apr 1929, aged 62, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Reay, Purvis Bolam, 10 Oct 1949, aged 27, Filler, heart failure

Redshaw, Adam, 02 Jun 1918, killed by a fall of stone

Renwick, William, 13 Dec 1967, (accident: 04 Jun 1958), aged 44, Miner

Richardson, John, 01 May 1941, (accident: 30 Apr 1941), aged 48, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Richardson, Wilfred, 11 Aug 1960, aged 52, Transit Hand, killed by a fall of stone

Robinson, Kenneth A., 22 Nov 1974, (accident: 28 Aug 1968), aged 33, Miner

Robson, Joseph, 04 May 1911, aged 26, Rivetter, fell off pulley frames

Rodgers, Michael, 09 Mar 1970, aged 21, Transit, trapped by tram

Rodgers, Thomas, 18 Apr 1929, killed by a fall of stone

Russan, William Francis, 08 Mar 1919, (accident: 03 Mar 1919), aged 31, scalded in boiler, address: Sycamore Street, Hirst

Satterley, James, 14 May 1912, aged 42, Coal Filler, when filling machine cut coal in a heading 7 ft. wide, stone came away at a slip which had been noticed; it is probable the timber had been neglected

Scott, Abraham, 21 Nov 1919, killed by a fall of stone

Scott, Robert, 1955, Shaftman, [exact date unknown] crushed by cage

Shears, Ernest William, 23 Dec 1959, aged 52, Salvage Worker, killed by a fall of stone

Simons, Herman, 25 Feb 1934, aged 50, Drawer, killed by a fall of stone

Spowart, Thomas, 29 Jul 1944, (accident: 07 Jul 1944), aged 31, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

Steadman, James Henry, 17 Sep 1936, aged 49, Banksman, crushed abdomen

Stephenson, S., 16 Jan 1968, aged 59, Onsetter, trapped by weights

Stipe, Edward, 09 Aug 1914, crushed by pony

Stobbart, James, 06 Dec 1962, (accident: 22 Nov 1962), aged 61, Trainee Supervisor, struck by steel strap

Strachan, James Peter, 01 Dec 1961, aged 45, Power Loader, killed by a fall of stone

Sumby, George Richard, 04 Oct 1912, (accident: 06 Sep 1912), aged 20, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Sweet, Bertie, 21 Dec 1909, aged 18, Locomotive fireman, caught between towing chain and workmen's carriage, Buried: Holy Sepulchre Churchyard, Ashington

Swinburne, George T., 17 Jul 1944, aged 72, Platelayer, silicosis

Tanney, Michael, 13 Feb 1942, aged 28, Filler, killed by a fall of stone

Taylor, John, 31 Mar 1914, aged 23, Hewer, Deceased had been working single in a heading, and was found dead under a large stone, by the deputy. The stone weighing about 1½ ton, had rolled out some single props. The roof was not a good one, and the deputy should have set sets of gears, instead of single props. The accident would probably have been prevented if proper precautions had been taken., Buried: St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Cresswekk

Tunn, James Oswald, 08 Jun 1972, aged 40, Power Loader, killed by a fall of stone

Turnbull, A. E., 07 Dec 1948, (accident: 28 Dec 1928), aged 67, Surface Worker, crushed between wagons

Wallace, William, 20 Nov 1964, aged 63, Transit, crushed by trams

Walsh, Michael, 08 Jun 1941, (accident: 05 Jun 1941), aged 54, Stoneman, killed by a fall of stone

Wardhaugh, Thomas Edward, 20 Nov 1944, aged 38, Composite, caught by cutting picks, Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Widdrington

White, Robert, 07 Aug 1947, aged 39, Coal Cutter, killed by a fall of stone, Buried: St. Peter's Cemetery, West Sleekburn

Willey, Robert, 27 Oct 1936, aged 34, Buried: St. John's Churchyard, Ashington

Winn, Colin Donald, 22 Mar 1971, aged 27, Underground Electrician, fall of stone, married with two children, Buried: Pegswood Cemetery [More information ...]