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Old 16-05-2014, 08:58 AM
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The very important work to establish a virtual Mining Memorial on the website continues (perhaps someday we might have a physical one? ):

Recently added: Broomhill Colliery; 85 deaths so far.

Member Janwhin's work (again)
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Old 16-05-2014, 09:04 AM
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As you can see from the list we have a few with little or no information. Some will come from the microfilms of the gazette.

One we will have problems with on the Broomhill list is Norman Anderson (1952) as the microfilm is missing for that year. It might eventually turn up in a digital image in the online newspaper archive, but in the meantime does anyone have any information on that death?

A note in the burial register mysteriously states Died at “Red Row, Roadside, Broomhill.”
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Old 16-05-2014, 09:52 AM
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Well, no sooner said than done......Morpeth Herald for 1952 has just come on line, and the burial entry makes sense.
Norman Anderson was killed on his motor cycle when he went into the back of an RAF truck.
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Old 16-05-2014, 07:13 PM
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Tragic though it is, should we remove him from the list if there is no mining connection?
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Old 16-05-2014, 09:48 PM
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I did wonder about that but he was killed coming back from work. There is another one for Whittle where the man was killed going to work. Tricky on these ones.
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Old 17-05-2014, 01:51 PM
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On balance, I think we should leave these deaths out. They were neither killed working in the pit nor killed by something owned by the pit e.g. colliery wagons.
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Doing a bit of work on the Warkworth cemetery monumental inscriptions last night and came across this one:

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In affectionate remembrance of William Bond, the beloved son of John & Alice Nesbit, who lost his life by accident at Broomhill Colliery November 26th 1891 aged 13 years.

I would have interpreted his name as "William Bond Nesbit" but as Janwhin has pointed out in the Broomhill Colliery memorial there is no reference to a burial of that name, but there is for a "William Bond"

We don't have the circumstances of his death as the newspaper archive draws a blank for both Nesbit and Bond versions of the name.

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Old 06-08-2014, 08:33 AM
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Nice find, Coquet, ties William Bond and Nesbit together. Now all we need is something about his accident.
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Old 16-10-2015, 04:10 PM
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Spending my free time with the 1915 Gazette. Has a more detailed account of the Alsop death at Broomhill.

That is one enormous stone that fell on the poor guy.

(Nov 13 1915)


RADCLIFFE MAN KILLED
Fall of Stone in Broomhill Colliery.

Mr. Charles Percy Coroner for North Northumberland, held an inquiry at Radcliffe, on Tuesday, into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Alsop, a stoneman.
Francis Alsop, market gardener, Amble, say the deceased was his father, who lived at Radcliffe, but worked at Broomhill Colliery, and was 67 years of age.
George Hall, Radcliffe, said he was a stoneman at Broomhill Colliery. On Monday, about 12.25 a.m., he and the deceased were working in the main seam at Broomhill Colliery. There were six of them working together. He (witness) was timbering, and the deceased was carrying the baulks down. He was going towards the deceased when a stone came away from the roof without warning. It was about 5 tons in weight, and a 10 foot in length and breadth it fell upon a deceased burying him underneath. It took them nearly an hour or so to get the stone off and remove the deceased, who was quite dead. Both he and the deceased had examined the roof about an hour and a half before the stone fell. They both jowlled it with an axe and found it, in their opinion, quite safe. It was timbered with two baulks, three planks, and five joists. He thought the whole of the props were canted, and they had knocked out no props. They were making a place into the flat when the stone came away from the jack. In his opinion, there was ample timber in.
Joseph Moscrop, chargeman at Broomhill Colliery, and living a Chevington Drift, said he had charge of that part where the accident happened. He was in the place about 9.30 on Sunday night. He examined the roof with a pick, and found the jowl heavy, but by the quantity of timber used, he considered it was quite safe for anybody to work in. Where most of the timber was there there was a visible slip, his intention — and he gave orders to Arthur Smails to see one of the six men, working at the time of the accident, to put in baulks, as many as were necessary, between the present baulks, and take out the planks, which would have made the place stronger and avoided posts on the way. In the ordinary course it would have been done that shift. The baulks were about 8 inches by 4 inches. He had never seen such a big fall before. He thought the baulks were quite sufficient in size.
The jury found the deceased was accidentally killed by a fall of stone.
The jury were: Messrs. Robert Wood (foreman), T.Truman, Ralph Bolton, R. Ritchie, John Armstrong, T. Scott, J.W. Scott, W.Craiggs, W. Lyons, J. Longstaff, T.W. Aisbitt, and C.B. Newbury.
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Old 17-10-2015, 10:49 AM
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Not heard this one in a while.
Above story shows such mining songs had an educational purpose, directed at the youngsters joining the pit.

Jowl jowl- and listen lads.
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Old 17-10-2015, 11:48 AM
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I like the Blues! And what about the Leek Slasher's Lament
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Yeah. Leek slashing. It's a real nasty business. Was a spate of it at Amble at one time.
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Yes, my dad was victim to it at least once! His allotment was like Fort Knox afterwards.
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Old 17-06-2016, 01:29 PM
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Think this man is missing from the Broomhill page?
He is mentioned as a witness in another inquest on the page.
He died shortly after he had a battering by a flying haulage rope after a set derailment but the doctor says natural causes. Probably why he is not recorded elsewhere.

[I've gone over for a second time the 1915 military deaths at Alnwick Library and noticed this chap. There is another mining death but he is lost in 800+ photographs at this time.]

Alnwick Gazette 14/8/1915

Inquest at Broomhill
Colliery Employee's Sudden Death

Mr Hugh J.Percy, deputy coroner for North Northumberland, held an inquest at Broomhill on Tuesday, on the body of John Ridley colliery wayman. There were present inspector of mines, Mr Noble (representing the Broomhill Colliery Company) Mr Weir and Mr Wade.
Thomas William Ridley deposed that the deceased was his brother and was employed by the Broomhill Coal Company. He was a single man, 46 years of age. He had been employed by the colliery for about 36 years, and had ailed in health at times.
John Benson Meekin, Amble, rolleyway man employed by the Broomhill colliery, applies colliery stated that about 8.30 on the 9th inst., a tub got off the way, which he dodged. He heard the deceased call and come limping towards him. He asked deceased how he was hurt and subsequently deceased told him that as a tub got off the road the rope struck him and threw him against the roof. The rope was jumping badly at the time. As he descended he struck the tub and fell off onto the empty road. He got a gliff which had shocked him. He denied that he had got an electric shock. He afterwards said that he was going away, which was before his time. He was holding his chest as though it was paining him, but he made no complaint. Deceased was working at the points. He (witness) had never known a set to jump the points at this place before. Deceased told him he thought the points had not been fully closed.
By Mr Weir — a tub off the way caused the rope to fly up.
Thomas Young said that about 9:50 a.m. the deceased and two others passed him in his garden. The deceased told them he had got a shock. He complained sore of his chest.
Doctor Robert Edward Moyles, Broomhill, who attended deceased about 10.15 in the morning of the 9th instant. He was unconscious. He made a post-mortem examination and found no trace of any injury. He attributed death to a growth in the base of the brain producing paralysis of the respiratory organs, which cause death.
The jury found a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. 14/8/1915
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Old 18-06-2016, 09:12 AM
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This one is a border line for inclusion. We had a conversation in the forum about whether to include those who died in the pit or on their way to/from work but not as a result of an accident in the pit. Decided not to. I've come across one other who had a heart attack in the pit. ??????
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Yes I remember saying that Natural causes I'll put in this thread then if they are a bit curious like the above.
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