Windle Colliery

1879 Windle St. Helens John Middlehurst Windle.
Certificated manager Robert McGill. no deaths up to 1878, 1 in 1879.

15th July 1865
Accident at Whalley’s colliery On Saturday a youth named Charles Birch the son of James a brickmaker was killed in the Rushy Park Mine. He was a drawer and a portion of the roof gave way and crushed him. (Colliery Guardian)

28th. February 1874.
St. Helens Colliery Winders Strike.
At a meeting held in St. Helens on the question of wages where it appeared that this class of men employed in St. Helens district, including Haydock, were not paid as much as those occupied in Wigan by three shillings a week. It appeared that some of the masters were willing to give an advance and the men are waiting to see what the employers will do until then they have given their notice. (St. Helens Newspaper and Advertiser)

30th. September 1879
Colliery Accident.
Joseph Mather of Bleak Hill, Breckles Lane, underlooker at the Windlehurst colliery died from injuries he received from a fall of stone while he was working in the colliery on the 14th. July last. At the inquest into his death it was heard that a large stone fell on him and since the accident, he had been in the care of Dr. Donnellen. (Prescot Reporter)

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.