GALLOW FLAT, Elswick, Northumberland, May, 1658.
The colliery was inundated and the number of persons lost is unknown but on the 24th April 1695:
Were buried, James Archer and his son Stephen who, in the month of May, 1658, were drowned in a coal pitt in the Galla Flat, by the breaking in of water from an old waste. The bodys were found intire after they had layen in the water thirty-six years and eleven months.
Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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