LITTLE LEVER. Bolton, Lancashire. 1835.
Evidence was given to Committee by Robert Grundy of Green Hayes, Manchester who owned a mine in partnership with his brothers. He told of an incident of which he had heard in a Mine belonging to Mr. Fletcher which killed about seventeen people. The mine was near a river and the water broke through at a fault that they had failed to find and probably not looked for.
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ST.HELENS. St.Helens, Lancashire. 1835.
It was reported that seventeen persons were drowned when water from a river went into the mine.
REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway, Vol.1, p.504.
Report from the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines. 4th September 1835
Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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