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Surname
ROBB
Forename
Thomas
Day
17
Month
10
Year
1930
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bankend
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Arden Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Coalburn
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
17 October 1930: Lanarkshire Pit Fatality - A miner was killed and another injured in a pit accident which occurred yesterday in the Bankend Colliery of the Arden Coal Company (Ltd.), Coalburn , Lanarkshire. The victim was Thomas Robb (40), of Coalburn, who was killed instantaneously, while the injured man is J. Thomson, also of Coalburn . The accident occurred in the Schooner section of the pit, and was due, it is believed, to a fall. Only about half a dozen miners were working in the section at the time and they succeeded in rescuing Thomson from the debris. [Scotsman 18 October 1930] NB Thomas Robb's brother John was killed at Glespin on 14 January 1934