FENTON PARK. Fenton Park, Staffordshire. 1806.
Clanny said that in an explosion at the colliery, seven were killed and several others injured.
The Derby Mercury, Thursday, September 14, 1809
Melancholy Accident – On Monday morning the 4th inst. As ten men were about to begin their daily labour in one of the pits of the Fenton Park Colliery, in the Potteries, near Newcastle, an explosion of the firedamp, or more properly hydrogen gas, too place, by which seven out of the ten unfortunate sufferers were deprived of life, and the other three would doubtlessly have shared the same fate, had it not been for the great and hazardous exertions of the Fenton Park Company. It is shocking to relate that a similar accident, arising from the same cause, took place in the same pit within the last twelve months, when no less than six men were killed, and several severely burned and bruised.
REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway, Vol. 1, p. 405.
Dr. Clanny’s Report to the Royal Society, 1813.
The Derby Mercury, Thursday, September 14, 1809
Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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