Apedale Colliery Explosion – Newcastle-under-Lyme – 1835

APEDALE. Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. 1835.

There is a reference to an explosion at the colliery in which ten or more lives were lost.

REFERENCES
Annals of Coal Mining. Galloway, Vol.1, p.504
Report from the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines. 4th September 1835. 2,594-96.

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