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Surname
GARDY
Forename
George
Day
04
Month
08
Year
1909
Age
40
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Howle Drift
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Hardy
Location
Lynesack & Softley
County
Durham
Details of Event
He with his brother opened a small colliery on their own account and were working at some old pillars close to the outcrop. He was spilling through an old bord room and had set a plank on a middle prop beneath the spilling timber He was preparing to put props under the end of the plank when the whole roof collapsed and buried him up.