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Renishaw Park Colliery - Page 2
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John Dye - Winding Wheel at Renishaw Park Colliery,  North East Derbyshire
Diane Marriott - Samuel Marriott, Killed Renishaw Park Colliery 1909

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Subject: 		John Dye
6 Feb 2014
Winding Wheel at Renishaw Park Colliery,  North East Derbyshire

Hello
 
I’m trying to find out if the winding wheel at Renishaw Park Colliery was powered by electricity or by other means of power?
 
I’d be very grateful of any help you could provide as I’m trying to get as much research done for a project I’m currently working on with my grandfather.
 
Many thanks
John Dye

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Hello Fionn
Please accept my many thanks for your help with the above, it has helped no end for our research.

I am again however in need of your help a second time, this time in regards to Westthorpe Colliery and in particular the Winding Engine used.

I know that the winding head was moved over to Pleasley Colliery but would be grateful of any further information you or your readers could garner for me.

Again thank you for your help.

John

Fionn, Been trawling through all my notes. I am almost positive it would be electric winding at that time as the engines had all been converted from steam......

Below is a very brief history....
The pit was flooded when water broke in from the River Rother in 1914.  A surface drift was driven for coal transport in 1951. A second surface tunnel 443 yards long was driven at 1in5 in 1976 at a cost of £200,000 and was operational in 1977.

Position SK43955277433.  The pit was sunk on the site of an old mine, a Whimsey of 1820 and Bramley Moor was sunk to the south that eventually coupled up to Hornthorpes. Shaft position SK 443650, 377500.  The DC shaft manriding to Deep Soft at 64 yards (58m), with a false bottom to the Chavery seam at 49 yards (45m).  UC shaft was sunk to the Blackshale or Silkstone at 226 yards (207m). No1 DCWinding shaft 11 feet (3.4m) dia, 231 yards (211m) deep, E443799, N377405.  No2 shaft or ladder shaft, 11 feet (3.4m) dia, 49 yards (45m) deep, E443812, N377402, filled in 1960.  The coal output was destined for power stations. No2 adit E443585, N377575, abandoned Mar 1991.

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Subject: 		Diane Marriott
3 February 2011
Samuel Marriott, Killed Renishaw Park Colliery 1909

Hello
I'm hoping you can help me, I am researching my family tree and when I received my great grandfathers death certificate, it gave the cause of death as ''accidently crushed by some runaway full tubs'' this happened on the 20th August 1909 at No.3 pit, Renishaw Park Collieries to Samuel Marriott of 23, Dronfield Rd. Eckington.

The inquest was held on the 25th Aug 1909, but I am trying to find out if there is a record of the accident any-where in the mine archives that would provide information about the circumstances... was he killed instantly? Above or below ground? Time of day, in fact anything would be appreciated.

Thank you very much, 
Diane Marriott in Queensland Australia.

His father was Rhodes Marriott, born about 1822, Walton, Derbyshire. Occupation: Coal Miner as still was aged 79.

His mother was Mary born about 1816, Eckington, Derbyshire, died between 1891 and 1901.

Samuel was widowed somewhere between 1886 and 1891and went back to live with his parents.

He had a son Alfred Marriott born about 1886. By 1901 he was aged 15 and an underground colliery labourer.

Fionn

From: Alan Beales
Sent: 9 February 2011

Hi Fionn re-Marriott query. He is on my data base and this detail is from HMI annual report 1909.

Renishaw Park (Deep Soft Coal) August 20 1909

Samuel Marriott, 52, dataller, A train of 22 tubs left the pass bye and went 30 yards up an engine plane rising
1 in 6 towards the shaft, when the haulage rope broke. The drag placed at the back of the tubs failed to hold the train, and they ran back into the pass bye where deceased was crushed between other full tubs when the runaway train ran into them.

An inquest report will be in the Derbyshire Times around that date, if she phones Chesterfield Library they may be able to send her a copy, if not the next time I visit that Library I will copy it for her, but I don't know when that will be.

Cheers A B 

 

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