Cowdenbeath Colliery Shaft Accident – Dunfermline – 1853

COWDENBEATH, Dunfermline, Fife, 30th. November, 1853.

The colliery was the property of the Forth Iron Company and five men lost their lives when the rope broke and sent them down the shaft.

Those who died were:

• Edward Sheppard and 4 others.

REFERENCES
Mines Inspectors Report, 1853.

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.