Amble and District Mining Memorial

[Coquet]

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)

[Coquet]

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.”

[janwhin]

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.

[Coquet]

Tragic though it is, should we remove him from the list if there is no mining connection?

[janwhin]

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.

[janwhin]

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.