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Frequency of Pit Deaths Becoming Serious

January 1927
Yorkshire Post January 12, 1927 Frequency of Pit Deaths Becoming Serious At an inquest at Little Houghton near Barnsley, yesterday, Councillor TW Illsley, an official of the...

Houghton Main Sinking

January 1927
Sheffield Independent January 29, 1927 Houghton Main Sinking Good progress is being made with the sinking of an additional shaft to the Parkgate seam of coal...

Miner Killed by Fall of Stone

January 1927
Sheffield Independent January 5, 1927 Charles Dunn, miner, Middlecliffe Cottages, Little Houghton was killed by a fall of stone at the Houghton Main colliery on...