Coppice Closed After 91 Years

- Continued -

Managers for Coppice:

• Robert H Robinson (411) Manager pre 1883-1886 then Agent and Manager 1886-1893
• Joseph Hodges (2396) Manager 1893-1895
• WEC Wilson (525) 1895-1899
• GH Ashwin (1930) 1899-1900
• For Shipley Colliery Co - ATC Savage (1137) 1900-1913
• RH Ferens (1810) 1913-1923
• William Claytor (511) 1923-1928
• Alf Grimes (409) 1928-1940
• Sam S Thornhill (3123) 1940-1941
• A Machin (2882) 1941-1943
• CAS Moore (2964) 1943-1945

Pits Split

• GS Milne (2764) 1945-1950
• Jack Hanman (3115) No1 and No3 1950-1953
• Frank T Murphy (4664) No1 1952-1953 then No1 and No3 1953-1958
• Jack Hanman (3115) No3
• Alf Postlethwaite (4750) 1958-1960

Pits United

• David M Parkes (5431) Manager 1961-1963
• Bas G Wright (5160) Manager 1963-1964 (transferred from Moorgreen)
• Agent Manager Derek M Brooks (5468) 1964-1966
• John Dow (3090) 1966-1967.

Deputy Managers:

• Gerald Hartley (5838) 1959-1960 (transferred to Moorgreen)
• Jim Murday (5850) 1960-1963
• Jim S Dodd (5803) 1963-1964
• John G Town (7579) 1964-1965 (transferred to Moorgreen)
• Jim Wright (6412) 1966 (promoted from Mapperley).

Assistant Managers:

• C Beedham (2nd) 1953-1955
• Trevor T Allbrighton (3807) 1956-1957
• Bas G Wright (5160) 1957-1858 (promoted to joint Manager Moorgreen).

Under Managers for Coppice:

• Joseph Hodges (2396) pre 1887-1893 promoted to Manager
• William Longden (2nd) 1893-1895
• Joseph Hodges (2396) 1895-1908 (back from Manager)
• JA Hodges (820) No2 1902-1922
• C Simms (2nd) No1 1908-1922
• J Brough (2147) No1 1922-1924
• A Hicking (2nd) No2 1922-1926 (transferred to Woodside)
• ML Wright (2nd) No1 1924-1927
• W Smedley (2nd) No2 1926-1929
• H Gittings (2nd) No1 1927-1939
• Clarence Moore (2nd) No3 1928-1938
• C Beedham (2nd) 1928-1938 No2 then No3 Mickley, No1 1939-1953
• G Thorpe (2nd) 1938-1950 No3 1942-1953 (promoted to Assistant Manager)
• Alan Hill (2769) 1940-1941
• A Fretwell (2nd) 1941-1945
• H Smith 1941-1942
• CW Allen (4584) No1 1953-1955
• R Couldwell (5064) No3 1953-1954
• Trevor T Allbrighton (3807) No3 1954-1956
• TI King (5496) No1 1956-1958
• Bas G Wright (5160) No3 1956-1957 (promoted to Assistant Manager)
• David A Weir (6148) No1 1958-1961
• John E Smith (4364) No3 1958-1964
• No1 John G Town (7579) 1960-1964 (promoted from Hatfield Main, promoted to Deputy Manager)
• Albert Knight (7873) No3 1960-1962

Pits United

• H Hartshorn (2nd) 1964-1966
• Ian Pilbeam (2nd) 1964-1966
• Les Dransfield (3978) (Mapperley section) 1964-1966.

Surveyors: …

• Ken E Nicholson (2202) 1950s-1967.

Fatal Accidents at Old Coppice

• Wilfred Noon, John Holmes, James Draper and Archibald Bestwick killed in an explosion of firedamp 28/6/1843

Fatal Accidents at New Coppice:

• Thomas Stafford (19) fall of roof 7/3/1892
• Richard Statham (38) fall of side 15/5/1896
• John Job Brown (16) fall in a roadway 12/7/1902
• Sydney Moore (30) fall of roof 18/3/1903
• Robert Meynell Saxton (28) fall in a roadway 30/5/1904
• Job Singleton (68) injured his hand 25/11/1905 and died 10/3/1906
• William Toplis Bacon (43) some timber fell down the shaft and struck him 3/2/1907
• William E Hutchinson (19) fall of roof 4/3/1907
• John William Hoe (33) a tub struck him knocking him into the sump 3/6/1909
• George Gratton (29) fell down the shaft 11/4/1908
• Henry Henshaw (47) injured his knee 23/1/1909, died 1/7/1909
• Thomas King (39) fall of roof 5/7/1909., died 6/7/1909
• William Welbourne (14) run over by tubs 9/8/1912
• Samuel Prince (60) scratch 2/12/1912, died from toxaemia 2/1/1913
• Wilfred Walker (16) kicked by a pony 13/11/1916, died 5/12/1916
• John Taylor (65) fall of roof 7/2/1917, died 9/2/1917
• Matthew Durrow (19) some coal fell down the shaft and struck him 19/9/1917, died 21/9/1919
• John Burton (51) hit by a piece of timber on the surface 1/3/1919, died 2/3/1919
• Christopher Winfield (50) crushed by tubs 26/9/1919, died 27/8/1919
• George W Harrison (49) run over by tubs 21/2/1923
• Ernest Humphries (18) run over by tubs 24/11/1923
• William Riley (53) fall of roof 22/2/1924, died 29/5/1924
• Fred W Clarence (21) fall of roof 22/9/1925
• Alfred Brown (31) fall of roof 5/5/1927
• Charles Shelton (21) run over by tubs 29/6/1927
• James Harvey (48) fall of roof 28/3/1928
• Sam Beale (29) fell out of the cage down shaft and was decapitated 21/11/1929
• George Henry Belshaw (37) fall of roof 11/2/1930
• Cyril Quinn (25) crushed by tubs 15/10/1930
• George William Miller (31) crushed by tubs 17/6/1932
• Cyril Kinney (38) crushed by tubs 18/7/1933
• William Keightley (24) fall of roof 17/8/1934, died 28/8/1934
• Herbert Hallam (48) crushed by tubs 2/11/1937
• Cyril Gent (33) crushed by wagon on the surface 4/2/1938, died 5/2/1938
• George Lawrence (54) fall of roof 12/7/1938
• Albert Howitt (35) fall of roof 2/12/1938, died from toxaemia 29/1/1940
• James William Watts (46) fall of roof 14/9/1940, died 14/10/1940
• Albert Quinn (42) fall of roof 4/6/1941
• Thomas V Woodroffe (34) fall of coal 1/9/1941
• Harry Bradley (31) run over by tubs 7/4/1943
• James Fenson (40) shotfiring accident 10/5/1943
• An explosion of firedamp 28/6/1943,
  • Archibald Bestwick (52) died 2/7/1943
  • John Holmes (31) died 2/7/1943
  • Wilfred Amos Noon (35) died 2/7/1943
  • James Draper (50) died 8/2/1943
• Herbert Noon (39) fall of roof -/3/1941, died 26/12/1943
• James Mills (58) fall of coals 29/11/1944, died 8/12/1944
• Stanley Fletcher (24) fall of roof 4/1/1951
• John George Brown (58) fall of roof 23/1/1951
• Albert Edward Fletcher (65) crushed by a tub on the surface 27/5/1953
• Clive Roy Spencer (20) fall of roof 18/4/1957
• Stanley Vere Martin (29) fall of roof 1/10/1957, died 6/10/1957
• James Barnsdale Birch (60) fall of roof 27/3/1958
• Raymond Mee (35) fall of roof 11/6/1958
• Thomas Flint (53) crushed by tubs 1/8/196

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