P4 - 1991 - Bob Bradley

1991 - Page 4

Creswell Closed After 95 Years

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Agents:

John P Houfton (1543) 1897-1913
John Bingley (1106) Agent 1913-1919
Sam Evans (1430) Agent 1919-1930
T Eric B Young Agent 1930-1937
Wilfred H Carter (1809) Agent 1937-1938
Wilfred H Sansom (858) Agent 1938-1945
Peter L Richardson (3242) Agent 1945-1946
Alfred E Naylor (1928) Agent 1947-1949
Jack A Tankard (3946) Agent 1949 -

Sub-Area Managers / Group Managers / Production Managers:

William ES Peach Sub Area Manager
Arthur G Douthwaite (transferred to Kent)
Jim Kerr (promoted from Harworth)

Managers for Creswell:

John P Houfton (1543) 1894-1897, Agent 1897-1913
John G Linneker (522) 1897-1899 (to Undermanager)
Sam Evans (1430) 1899-1918 (transferred to ..)
Fred Limb (6431 / 2nd) 1919 temp
Len Henton (3729) 1920-1946
George Inverarity (2666) Manager Nov 1946-1952 (previously spare Manager for Bolsover Colliery Co, promoted to Sub-Area Manager)
Sam Baker (4201) Manager 1952-1953 (promoted from Warsop, transferred to Whitwell, transferred to Vane Tempest, promoted to Group Manager North East)
Sid C Carter (2979) 1953-1974 (transferred from Manager Parkhouse, upgraded to General Manager)
Mike Goldsby (8208) General Manager 1974-1978 (promoted from Deputy Manager, transferred to Chalfont Staff College and later DCME South Nottinghamshire, then DCME Mine Planning and Survey Nottinghamshire Area, transferred to Eastwood Hall), died from brain tumour 2005
David Oliver (8338) General Manager May 1978-1986 (promoted from Deputy Manager Thoresby, transferred to Manager Gedling) died from cancer 2007
David M Betts (10958) Manager 1986-1987 (promoted from Deputy Manager Thoresby, transferred to Manager Asfordby)
Gordon F Froggatt (8164) Manager 1987-1990 (promoted from Deputy Manager Bevercotes)
Steve Wright (9981) Manager 1990-1991 (transferred from Calverton), for closed colliery

Deputy Managers:

Arthur R Randle (7553) 1963-1966 (promoted from Undermanager Bramley Vale, promoted to Manager High Moor)
W (Bill) J Belfitt (7208) 1966-1967 (from Whitwell Deputy Man, to Safety Engineer Trent Poly)
John F Brass (8587) 1967-1968 (promoted from Ormonde, transferred to Deputy Manager Ollerton)
Jim EG Cannon (7674) 1969-1970 (transferred from Sherwood, transferred to Welbeck) d 2008
Mike Goldsby (8208) 1971-1973 (promoted from Assistant Manager Thoresby, promoted to Manager)
John Higginbotham (9293) 1976-1978 (promoted from Ollerton, transferred back as Deputy Manager Ollerton)
Terry C Camm (8906) 1976-1986 (promoted from Assistant Manager, transferred to Area Safety dept 1986-1990)
David J Moult (11244) 1986-1987 (promoted to Manager Sherwood)
Edward (Ted) B Giles (10067) 1987-1990 (transferred to Silverhill, transferred back again)
Roger H Smith (11153) 1989-1991 (promoted from Welbeck)
Kevin Bancroft 1991 (11819) (later Manager Clipstone)

Assistant Managers:

Terry C Camm (8906) 1973-1978 (promoted from Undermanager, promoted to Deputy Manager)
Alder Scott (9338) 1980-1984
Reg J Fitzpatrick (10961) Dec 1984-Mar 1986 (promoted from Silverhill, promoted to Deputy Manager Sutton)
Robert (Bob) M Hurst (9113) 1986-1987 (transferred from Blidworth)
Kevin B Smith (10806) 1989 (transferred to Harworth)
Alan Rodgers dev 1990

Undermanagers for Creswell included:

H Lesson (2173) 1896-1897
John G Linneker (522) 1899-1906 from Manager
William J Preston (2117) 1906-1910
Fred Limb (6431 / 2nd) 1911-1919
J Swift (4160 / 2nd) 1919
Fred Limb (2nd) 1920-1931
John T Rice (816) 1931-1937 (promoted to Manager Mansfield)
W Vic Sheppard (2853) 1937-1938 (promoted to Manager Rufford)
John A Jones (1292) 1938-1942
Frank Bishop (3258) 1942-1946 (promoted from Safety Officer, promoted to Manager Bestwood -1946, joining HMI in 1947)
Tommy M Cope (4164) 1945-1948
George Samuel Ward Payton (4228) Jan 1948 (promoted from Safety Officer) and 1949-1955
Tommy M Cope (4164) 1948-1949
Horace Beech (4202) 1956-1962
Cyril Nicholls (5347) 1963-1971 (transferred to Assistantt Manager Personnel Creswell)
Terry E Wheatley (8348) 1968-1970 (transferred to Silverhill, later Manager Thoresby, Production Manager, Director Wales)
Terry C Camm (8906) 1971-1973 (previously Undermanager Wharncliffe Woodmoor 4/5, Barnsley Area, promoted to Assistant Manager)
John Liptrot (1974-1983, Assistant Undermanager and Undermanager, previously Assistant Manager Blaengrach, Undermanager Tower South Wales)
Edward (Ted) B Giles (10067) 1978-1985 (promoted from Ollerton, promoted to Deputy Manager)
Robert M Hurst (9113) 1983-1984 (transferred from Sutton, promoted to Assistant Manager Blidworth)
Paul D Henry (11195) 1986-1888 (promoted to Assistant Manager Blidworth)
Kevin B Smith (10806) 1988 (promoted to Assistant Manager)
Ken D Hill (11298) 1988-1991 (transferred to Ollerton)
D Meikle 1990-1991

Surveyors included:

Cyril North, Chief Surveyor for Bolsover Co. 1930 - 1947
Group Surveyor pre 1947 … Stan Coe, Bolsover Co. then NCB from 1947 to 1960s and Ron Hays - 1974
Senior Surveyors Gordon Ison 1974 - 1986 and Robert Bradley 1986 - 1990
Colliery Surveyors Thomas Archie Green 1928 retired 26/10/1962 (salary from 1/1/1932 was £234 per annum)
William (Bill) Fox (transferred as Assistant 12/11/1956 from Langwith) (3061, appointed Nov 1962-1989)
William (Billy) Ellison (5117) 1989-1991

Safety Officer:

Herbert Ross at the time of the fire disaster

Colliery Nurse:

Christine Spencer

Fatal Accidents Creswell:

John Anderson (34) run over by tubs on the surface 6/8/1898
Charles Hawsley Taylor (20) crushed by a pony 29/8/1898
William Raynor Paget (23) crushed by cage on the surface 17/7/1899
Isaac Hunt (47) fall of roof 30/3/1900, died 21/3/1900
Thomas Stenson (48) fall of roof 29/5/1902
William Garratt (35) fall of roof 16/8/1902
Sam Goodman (25) fall of roof 2/12/1903
James Russon (15) crushed by tubs 2/2/1904
Fred Williams (16) crushed by tubs 18/3/1904
George William Taylor (13) run over by tubs 20/1/1905
Eli Ward (37) 15/3/1905
John Presley (16) crushed by tubs 4/9/1905
Ralph Burton (27) fall of roof 7/11/1906
William Baker (45) fall of roof 12/6/1907, died 14/7/1907
Alfred Stainsbury (19) crushed by tubs on the surface 9/4/1908, died 13/4/1908
Alfred Robinson (20) fall of roof 26/8/1909
Arthur Hunt (48) fall in a roadway 20/4/1910
Samuel Hurst (37) fall in a roadway 22/1/1911
Joseph Ernest Hogg (14) crushed by tubs 22/2/1911
William A Ward (15) fall in a roadway 6/4/1911
Henry Waller (48) fall of roof 28/11/1911
Reuben Jones (40) fall of roof 21/2/1912, died in Worksop hospital
Wm Thomas Ayris (52) fall of roof 5/2/1913, died 6/2/1913 after reaching home
Joseph Swift (46) fall of roof 30/4/1914
Arthur Haywood (36) fall of roof 15/11/1915, died 7/12/1915 in Chesterfield hospital
G Collins (—) fall of roof in 72s stall 12/9/1916
David Williams (60) fall in a roadway 12/10/1916
Arthur Buxton (32) fall of roof 24/4/1917
Henry Trinder (47) fall of roof 24/7/1917
J Holmes (52) fall of roof in a stall 27/7/1917
Harry Limb (16) run over by tubs 18/3/1919
Thomas Cooper (49) fall of roof 29/5/1919
William Pearson (43) fall of roof 8/11/1921
William Mycock (53) killed by fall of roof 17/11/1921
Henry Wright (41) fall of roof 27/3/1922
George Hand (47) fall of roof 17/5/1922
Albert Lee (38) fall of roof 1/11/1921, died 17/5/1922
Thomas Lomas (48) fall of roof 3/3/1924
Matthew Henry Buckley (53) shotfiring accident 14/4/1924
William Kaye (44) fall of roof 16/12/1924, died 27/12/1924
Ernest George Postle (25) fall of roof 4/5/1927, died 16/6/1927
Ernest Wilfred Brown (25) fall of roof 13/6/1929
Henry Lowther (38) fall of roof 23/3/1930
John Guyler (53) fall of roof 30/7/1930
Percy Fitchet (32) crushed by tubs 13/12/1930
Albert Edward Beese (26) fall of roof 23/12/1930
George Ellis (30) fall of roof 14/5/1931
Cecil Robinson (20) run over by tubs 6/1/1932
Alfred Bailey (25) shotfiring accident 22/8/1932
Charles Wood (32) fall of roof 4/9/1932
William Henry Thorpe (59) and Horace Ewart Booth (49) fall of roof 27/9/1933
William Woodhead (44) fall of roof 28/11/1933
Charles Coalwood (31) fall of roof 26/5/1934
Joseph Stanley King (41) caught in a cutter 13/5/1936
Thomas Holder (64) leg injury 22/5/1936 died from toxaemia 13/8/1936
Ben Ward (37), William Reginald Booth (35) and Robert Newton (33) all 3 killed when the rope broke on a manrider 2/6/1938
George Attwood (63) manriding accident 12/9/1939
Eric Bonser (25) crushed by tubs 5/6/1940
Charles Snowdon Fall (62) fall of roof 17/12/1940
James Turner (32) fall of roof 30/6/1942
Eric Bull (27) caught in a conveyor 25/6/1942, died 13/7/1942
Harry Raisbeck (45) killed 2/1/1945 and Harry Johns (65) died 8/1/1945 from explosion of gas
Alexander Moran (57) fall of coal 9/3/1938, died 15/3/1948
80 men died in fire 26/9/1950, list of dead in the disaster (Those Who Died)
John Reginald White (31) fall of roof 27/8/1955
Alec George Fletcher (46) crushed by tubs 22/8/1963
Peter John Glossop (?) fall of roof 1/10/1955, died 31/12/1955
George William Chapple (55) head injury 26/11/1973, died 29/11/1973

Peter Whiteman (26) hit by falling rails on the surface 26/6/1973

Comprehensive Annual Reports for the Manager …. Could vary at other pits

General remarks for …
Various Offices for management, secretaries, time and wages etc.
Wages costs
Workshops … for Joiners, Blacksmiths, Mechanics, Electricians etc.
Boilers, Screen roads, Machinery and the Village
Number of shifts worked
Coal drawn (gross)
Average output per shift
Percentage of output … Machine cut etc.
Coal getting faces in work
Coal cutters on hand and in use
Percentage and tonnage of dirt and dirt tipping
Workmen employed (including boys), Under Officials, Deputies, Shotfirers
Absenteeism
HM Inspectors’ visits
Underground roof supports
Lamps and Lamp Cabin
Safety lamps
Cottage property
Farms
Ordinary Accidents reported and claims
Fatal accidents, claims and part compensation or permanent
Summary of accidents
Nystagmus (Full, Part or Permanent)
Industrial disease (old or new)
Haulage, engines, ropes, rails, clips etc
Horses and Ponies (in use) and Gangers, coal and supplies
Horses and Ponies (disposals)
Pumps and water underground and water pumped out of the mine or raised in tubs
Faults
Falls
Disputes
Deputations
Ventilation and Fans
Coal dust
Inspections
Royalty payments
Colliery consumption of coal (Boilers, other Fires, Workmen and Free)
Electrical units and Electrical staff
Machinery … steam driven Winding engines
Boilers
Water softener
Plant
Headgears
Winding ropes
Banks and Screens and railway wagons
Surface and Underground machinery
Rescue work
Explosives and Shots fired and misfires
Danger reports
Sumps and Shafts
Stoppages
Stone drifting
Maintenance of Roads
Timbering
Discipline
Brickworks (Bolsover)
Sick Clubs
Ambulance classes
Ambulance Division
Members of SJAB
Members of Industrial Union
Mining Classes
Boys Btigade
Band
Institutes
War Relief Fund
War Memorials
Sport … Cricket … Football … Bowls … Hockey … Billiards … Whist