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1994 - Page 37

Kiveton And High Moor Combine Closed

- Continued -

Undermanagers for Kiveton Park:

  • SS Taylor (2913) 1940s-1966
  • F Ibbotson (3841) 1940s-1953
  • K Fretwell (5927) 1953-1966 (transferred to Manton)
  • John D Gannon (8616) 1966-1970 (promoted to Deputy Manager Dinnington)
  • TA Cresswell (5517 / 2nd) 1966-1974
  • G Hill (9783) 1970-1977
  • D Beech (9248) 1970-1974
  • H Lawrence (8923) 1973-1975 (promoted to Deputy Manager)
  • D Meares (10016) 1974-1977
  • CJ Dorlin (5824) 1974-1977
  • Vic Hinks (9888) 1977-1980
  • K Scott (10858) 1978-1981
  • Mike K Tucker (10989) 1981-1985
  • R Bowley (11076) 1981-1985
  • Chris Kellaway (11335) 1985-1987 (transferred to Nottinghamshire Area)
  • N Wills (11167) 1987-1988
  • D Neal (11490) 1988-1989.

High Moor:

  • 1958: 1 handfilling face 33,379 tons, 81 men
  • 1960: 2 handfilling faces 119,878 tons, 131 men
  • 1963/64: 3 handfilling faces 259,219 tons, 224 men
  • 1966/67: 1 handfilling and 2 double ended conveyor mounted trepanner machine cut faces 272,455 tons, 283 men
  • 1969/70: 3 machine faces 481,115 tons, 406 men
  • 1972/73 : 424,000 tons, 455 men. Dosco Roadheaders were used for development headings
  • 1982/83: 620,807 tonnes, 575 men
  • 1985/86: 509,298 tonnes, 640 men

Manpower High Moor drift: No1 Area East Midlands Division:

  • 1958: 57 drifting to Clowne, 6 s/f
  • 1961: 98 Clowne, 6 s/f
  • 1962: 126 C, 9 s/f
  • 1964:191, 22 s/f
  • 1966 Clowne seam
  • 1967: 191 C, 22 s/f
  • 1968: 191 C, 22 s/f
  • 1969: 321 C, 42 s/f
  • 1970: 333 C, 39 s/f
  • 1971: 378 C, 51 s/f
  • 1972: 398 C, 56 s/f
  • 1975 C 421 83 s/f
  • 1976: 421 C 83 s/f
  • 1979: 645 Clowne 58s/f
  • 1980: 465 C, TF, 53 s/f
  • 1981: 492 C, TF, 62 s/f
  • 1984: 502 C, TF, 61 s/f
  • 1985: 535 C, TF, 52 s/f
  • 1987: 549 C, TF, 64 s/f
  • 1988: 549 C, TF, 64 s/f
  • 1989: 549 Clowne, Two Foot, 64 s/f.

Managers for High Moor:

  • George Walker (3903) 1960
  • P Julian Griffiths (5676) 1960-1961 (transferred to Westthorpe - 1963, later Director South Nottinghamshire Area)
  • Jim Rodgers (6128) 1961-1963
  • John B Howarth (5939) 1963-1965
  • Arthur R Randle (7553) 1965-1966
  • Albert Wheeler (7349) 1966-1967 (promoted to Colliery General Manager Williamthorpe, promoted to Production Manager, later Deputy Chairman of British Coal)
  • Glynn W Rogers (5313) 1967-1968
  • Acting Manager Frank Rimmer (3649) 1969
  • William (Bill) Bridge (6973) 1969-1971
  • Jim S Dodd (5803) Agent / Manager 1971-1974
  • Frank Geoff Hicken (7868) Agent Manager 1974-1978
  • Phil M Davies (9672) 1978-1982 (promoted from Arkwright, appointed Senior Mining Engineer (Planning & Survey) North Derbyshire Area
  • Brian Bell (9848) 1983-1986
  • David C Gardner (9093) 1986-1988
  • Ernest Hardy (9483) 1988-1989, then Kiveton (combined mine) Ernest Hardy 1989-1993
  • Kelvin Wigham (11487) (29/4/82) 1994-1995.


Deputy Managers: High Moor:

  • Fred Oldfield (4397) 1970-1971
  • Len Edwards (7953) 1971-1975
  • H Brian Bennett (8306) 1975-1980 (shown to extreme left in photo, promoted from Assistant Manager Westthorpe)
  • Fred Tildesley (6788) 1980-1983 (promoted from Whitwell)
  • Wilf Davies (10876) 1983-1989
  • Kiveton: (combined mine) KA Haynes (10908) and M Fletcher (11567).


Undermanagers for High Moor:

  • Dennis A Brain (6055) -1967
  • Jim B Wallace (8061) 1967- 1972
  • Charlie A Clarkson (9058) 1970-1972
  • Stan W Hunt (6092) -1978
  • Wilf Davies (10876) 1979-1983 (promoted to Deputy Manager)
  • Eric Hall (9482) -1983
  • Charlie Daniels (6797) 1983-1988
  • Dave A Howarth (11218)
  • Martin AT Hadfield (11349) -1986
  • MJ Lynn (11480)
  • EG Wilkinson (11724)

Undermanagers for combined mine Kevin Wigham (11487)

  • MJ Lynn (11480)
  • S Pope (11757)
  • D Neal (11490).

Unusually there was a woman Cost Accountant, Margaret

Surveyors: Surveyors from Westthorpe established the mine

  • Herbert Gee (3353) promoted from Westthorpe, was in post 1958 Aug 1986
  • M Robertson (5476) 1986
  • Phil Toseland (6002) 1987-1989 (transferred from Whitwell, to Bolsover, then appointed at Dinnington, redundant and appointed privately at Eckington drift mine (Moorside Mining Ltd) and part-time with Coal Authority 1998-2010.

Fatal Accidents: Kiveton Park:

  • J Larkin (54) killed when surface equipment fell 26/4/1868
  • Thomas Spencer (28) fall of coal 9/10/1869
  • Henry Parkin (19) Collier, fall of roof 31/8/1871
  • George Parker (13) Ganger, crushed by tubs 23/10/1872
  • George Stewart (28) Stall man, fall of coal 24/10/1872
  • H Keek (19) explosion of firedamp gas 21/6/1872, died 11/12/1872
  • John Marriott (53) Stall man, fall of coal 24/12/1873
  • Isaac Reynolds (23) fell into the sump 24/2/1874
  • George Rawson (25) scalded by steam from the boilers 25/9/1874
  • Aaron Reed (22) Stall man, fall of coal 12/4/1875
  • John Potter (33) fall of roof 29/9/1875
  • W Newbury (47) Stall man, killed 31/1/1876
  • M Siddall (33) Stall man, fall of coal 14/9/1876
  • H Sarston (13) Ganger, run over by tubs 15/11/1876
    • William Bradford (34)
    • Sam Layhe (24)
    • Ephraim Riley (28)
    • James Winfield (25), all 4 killed by an explosion of firedamp 19/5/1880
  • William Waring (51) Collier, fall of roof 25/5/1881, died on 1/6/1881
  • James Gollick (14) Ganger, run over by tubs 5/12/1880
  • S Fretwell (52) Stall man, fall of roof 30/11/1881
  • B Booth (45) Collier, fall of roof 18/12/1882, died on 26/1/1883
  • E Rivington (58) Stall man, fall of coal 11/1/1883
  • Walter Bass (25) Stall man, fall of roof 19/11/1884
  • M Simpkins (42) Stall man, fall of coal 2/6/1885, died 18/6/1885
  • William Mallinder (33) Stall man, fall of roof 23/6/1885
  • C Harley (52) run over by wagons on the surface 6/7/1885
  • F Rowbottom (30) Stall man, fall of roof 8/10/1886
  • Thomas Turnbull Dial (37) fell down the shaft 14/11/1886
  • J Thompson (54) Stall man, fall of coal 25/6/1888
  • George Holroyd (49) Collier, fall of roof 17/10/1888
  • W Fox (34) Ripper, fall from side 16/1/1889
  • J Shaw fell down shaft 24/3/1889
  • J Bennett (15) Ganger, run over by tubs 15/3/1890, died 16/3/1890
  • J Edwards (60) Collier, fall of roof 23/4/1894
  • E Page (23) Collier, fall of roof 15/3/1895
  • J Lebond (49) and J Swift (52) Colliers, large fall of roof 7/1/1897
  • C Laking (13) Ganger, fall of roof 25/10/1899
  • Arthur Deakin (33) fell down the shaft 1/8/1900
  • Arthur Wigmore (17) Ganger, fall of roof 18/4/1905
  • William Motley Smith (50) Collier, fall of roof 11/5/1905
  • Ernest Harry Jones (29) Collier, fall of roof 12/12/1905
  • Arnold Waplington (21)head wound on 12/5/1906, died from septicaemia on 29/5/1906
  • Robert Green (57) Collier, fall of roof 11/9/1908
  • Herbert Sewell (16) Ganger, fall in a roadway 3/3/1910
  • Dennis Bug (18) crushed by a hoist on the surface
  • Albert Copestake (13) run over by tubs 10/5/1913
  • George Henry Gabbitas (44) Ripper, fall in a roadway 3/2/1914
  • Arthur Bateman (27) Collier, fall of roof 15/5/1914
  • Isaac Swift (26) Collier, fall of roof 16/8/1915
  • Solomon Hart (58) Collier, fall of roof 15/12/1915
  • Henry Oakton (51) Collier, fall of roof 11/5/1918
  • Henry Soar (17) Ganger, fall in a roadway 18/2/1921
  • George Lebond (39) Collier, fall of coal 29/8/1922
  • Sidney Barker (66) Collier, fall of coal 7/1/1929
  • Edward Evans (67) Collier, fall of roof 3/12/1929
  • Job Unwin (23) fell from a loco on the surface 16/9/1931, died on 5/12/1931
  • Herbert Favell Willis (46) Collier, fall of roof 10/10/1931
  • Arhur Drakett (44) shotfiring accident 9/12/1931
  • William Wood (68) Collier and Wm Young (68) Collier, both kileed by a fall of roof 18/3/1940
  • Jack Fairbrother (37) Collier, fall of roof 4/2/1941
  • Reginald Banks (43) Collier all the following six men were killed in an explosion of methane on 24/6/1941
  • Charles Bradford (18) Collier
  • Jonas Eames (41) Collier
  • William Eames (38) Collier
  • Frederick Hoften (67) Collier
  • George Robert Walker (27) Collier

High Moor mine: No fatalities or incidents known.

Numerous Old Sites

At the High Moor mine site (North Derbyshire), there were workings in the Wales seam and numerous old shafts in the area north from the pit towards Woodhall village were suspected and needed to be located, also drilling was done to determine the depth of the seam prior to working the Clowne seam. Loughborough University was contacted to search for the surface positions, using a proton magnetometer. However the mining surveyors brought in one of their own, Harold Pettinger a retired member, to use his High-Tec dowsing kit. This comprised metal rods swivelled on hand-holders that contained glass compartments. Harold would walk the fields with this device, sometimes with a piece of brick in the glasses, sometimes dirty water, the content depending upon the nature of the expected shaft fill. On one occasion he had nothing in the glasses and reported he was looking for a void! Eventually he found as many shafts as the proton magnetometer, however neither method was satisfactory, and the exercises were completed by bulldozer.

 

 

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