Morton colliery (Derbyshire) sunk in 1863 by the Clay Cross Co was closed in May 1965 after 102 years.Shaft depth was 313 yards (286m).It was referred to as No5/6 pit, DC position SK46SW, 441095, 360376 or 43/4160/355376, 424 ft (129.2m), No5 UC 43/4160/382384, 414 ft (126.2m) above sea level. The highest manpower was 1,033 in 1956 and highest output 390,472 tons in 1955.Situated at edge of the village of Morton, north of Stonebroom and due west of Tibshelf.Pit rows to house the miners were built at Stonebroom. Pithead baths were built in 1936. Seams worked: Deep Hard -1945, Tupton 5ft 5in (1.65m) -1948 and again -1960 Threequarters – Nov 1955 and –1965 and Blackshale 1945-1965. A Loebbehobel plough was installed in the Threequarter seam in 1958, however the results were bad because of bad geology. Water was a problem and the shafts were kept open as a pumping pit, to protect working collieries. 340,000,000 gallons pumped in 1990 at 647 gallons per minute.There was a connection through to Park House, where a demarcation point was abandoned in Dec 1960. A series of cascades for the water was constructed on the tip to aerate the water and help to remove the iron before discharging to the stream. Fatal Accidents at Morton: Sam Thorpe (13) 18/10/1867 William Tracey (15) fall of side 23/1/1868 William Grey (25) fall of roof 18/3/1868 Thomas Cooper (30) crushed by tubs 27/8/1868 Thomas Smith (..?) 27/8/1868 John Neale (24) fall of roof 18/3/1869 James Haywood (34) fall of coal 1/2/1870 William Webb (30) bucket fell down the shaft 23/2/1872 Lewis Cawthorne (12) run over by tubs on the surface 27/7/1872 William Price (50) fall of roof 30/8/1872 Joseph Hays (12) run over by tubs 11/7/1873 Joseph Smith (28) 7/2/1873 John Butler (20) explosion of firedamp 3/4/1875 William Brown (15) crushed by tubs 16/6/1875 John Henry Edge (14) crushed by wagon on the surface 30/6/1880 Thomas Marriott (46) fall of coal 28/5/1887 Joseph Crowe (17) crushed by wagon on the 20/4/1892, died 21/4/1892 Joseph Leah (13) run over by tubs 12/2/1894 Thomas John Babbs (33) fall of roof 4/6/1896 John Green (53) shotfiring accident 8/10/1898 James Taylor (45) fall of roof 31/10/1899 Robert Littlewood (14) crushed by tubs 27/4/1901 George Adam Potts (22) fall of roof 8/1/1904 John Hadley (14) run over by tubs 6/11/1905 George William Shore (52) fall of roof 29/1/1912 John Sparham (31) fall of coal 23/12/1911, died 13/2/1912 Aaron Smedley (57) fall of coal 6/10/1914, died from toxaemia 13/10/914 Benjamin Cummings (46) crushed by a manrider 21/2/1916 Edward Butterworth (26) fall of roof 7/3/1917, died 16/3/1917 John Samuel Blount (..?) 14/8/1919 William Crier (..?) 7/8/1919 Arthur Tyler (35) fall of roof 28/2/1920 Walter Whitmore (15) fall in a roadway 6/6/1923 Arthur Henry Spencer (34) fall of roof 20/12/1923 John William Ward (19) run over by tubs 2/4/1924 Peter Taylor (63) crushed by machinery on the surface 9/5/1925 George Henry Wilson (47) fall of roof 21/9/1928 John Thomas Sharman (58) fall of roof 3/11/1930 John Frederick Cupit (14) caught in machinery 18/9/1931, died 19/9/1931 Arthur Salmon (45) crushed by tubs 3/10/1931 Henry Buckley (49) fall of roof 30/6/1932, died 22/10/1932 Harry Wheelock (38) fall of roof 5/1/1933 James R Greensmith (36) fall of coal 28/7/1934 Cyril Gaser (23) fall of roof 21/3/1935 Charles Frank Swain (29) crushed by tubs 13/12/1935 Lewis Ernest Roberts (16) run over by tubs 16/4/1937 George Parker (51) fall of roof 16/11/1938 Joseph Searston (48) fall of roof 11/4/1940 Frank Bradley (47) and Jim Blount (32) fall of roof 1/5/1940 Charles Jarvis (40) fall of roof 10/5/1940 Samuel Sydney Else (60) crushed by tubs 2/1/1945 Arthur Charles Wilson (62) crushed by tubs 6/2/1954 Cyril Joseph Stevens (40) fall of roof 2/7/1954 Ernest George Frost (23) caught in machinery on the surface 8/8/1961 Christopher Day (39) 4/5/1954. Several Opencast sites were adjacent to Morton Colliery where the 2ft 5in (0.74m) thick Threequarter seam was extracted, namely Bumpmill, finished Nov 1954, Greyhound, finished July 1956 and Skeggerleg finished Aug 1956. Strathfield drift, Stretton pit (Tupton abandoned 1891) and Stretton Small mine drift were adjacent also. Pebley air shaft near Barlborough, (Derbyshire) was finally closed.
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