Aged 35, Miner, fall of a piece of top dogger while baring out a piece of ironstone
Month: October 2017
Skelton Park Fatality – John Thomas – 29 Oct 1889
Aged 54, Labourer, died suddenly from heart disease while engaged casting some timber near the pit, Buried: St. Nicholas, Guisborough on 01 Nov 1889 Skelton in Cleveland, All Saints on 20 Apr 1881
South Skelton Fatality – John Ellis – 28 Oct 1875
Aged 14, Driver, crushed by tub, Buried: Skelton in Cleveland, All Saints on 16 Nov 1875 Parish records image by kind permission of Teesside Archives.
Skelton Park Fatality – William Allen Dunning – 21 Oct 1911
(accident: 19 Oct 1911), aged 17, Driver, he was bringing his horse to the stables at the end of the shift and was followed by two other drivers, each with a horse; on arriving at the stables he stepped to one side to allow the horses to pass; the first two passed quietly but the […]
Skelton Park Fatality – R Granger – 16 Oct 1882
3D modelling of mine remains
Whilst practicing drone piloting, we have been able to produce some initial models which merge earlier ground photography with new images from the air. Skelton Park Power House by Chris Twigg on Sketchfab The results already look very promising and we hope to further enhance their quality as an output of the project. Skelton Park Fan House by […]
Skelton Park Fatality – John Brack – 05 Oct 1911
(accident: 23 Sep 1911), aged 58, Deputy, he was engaged with three other deputies in timbering across an old bord, which had fallen many years ago, in order to make a road to work a pillar of stone; he was cutting a hole in the side for one end of a bearing balk, when some […]
South Skelton Fatality – John Sunley – 04 Oct 1916
Spa Wood Fatality – Thomas Welburn – 03 Oct 1912
Aged 16, Siding attendant, on his way outbye he stopped to speak to another siding attendant; the electric lights went out, and the latter thought deceased had switched them off; presently, however, he found deceased lying on his back insensible with one of the lighting cables, broken in his hand; his oil lamp was standing […]
Skelton Park Mine – Bat Survey
Members of the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust and volunteers from the newly formed Cleveland Bat Group carried out a survey at Skelton Park Mine on 30th September. After the bats emerged at sunset, three groups walked over the mine site with Magenta heterodyne detectors that allowed us to listen to the bats echolocation calls as they flew […]