Charles William Stanley ELSMORE, Accident in Mine in FOD (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 00:51 (4820 days ago) @ Jefff

While researching Lucy as an afterthought I tried the excellent Coalmining History site. Within their database of 164,000 accidents nationwide there was only one "Elsmore".
By coincidence it's for a boy employed by the last colliery company in Ellwood/Parkend area, I presume this may be a descendant of Lucy's ?.

Mining Accidents - ELSMORE Charles William Stanley
Name: ELSMORE Charles William Stanley
Age: 15
Date: 02/02/1914
Year: 1914
Occupation: Shifter
Colliery: Flour Mill
Owner: Princess Royal Colliery Co Ltd
Town:
County: Gloucester
Notes: No one saw the accident happen, but presumably he was trying to couple two tubs together, when a set of four tubs was brought down to the shaft siding and bumped into the rear end of those he was trying to couple. He was found immediately afterwards stooping with his head between the tubs. his skull was fractured, and he died the same day. There was no use in coupling the tubs, but no other reason suggests itself to account for the position in which he was found. The tubs on the inbye side of him had just been brought down the siding; it was therefore certain that they were not coupled to the tubs on the outbye side of him.

"....in 1898... most of the principal collieries were near Cinderford or Parkend...... included Flour Mill colliery in the Oakwood valley near Bream and Park Gutter west of Whitecroft, both worked by the Princess Royal Colliery Co."
www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267&strquery=parkend+royal

Again I hope this is of interest, although I guess you've already seen it.

Finally, are you related to the "King Of The Dean", aka Coleford based garage-owner & 70s/80s rally driver Graham Elsmore ?

Happy Hunting, Jeff.