Wigan Album
Pemberton colliery
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Photo: Rev David Long
Item #: 34528
Acknowledged to the Historic Society of Lancs & Chesh. - Vol. 117 of their Transactions, from an article by D Anderson on Wages & Disputes etc.
My Grt Grandfather, John Bradshaw of Halfway House, was one of the 36 men & boys who lost their lives in the King Pit
Disaster. He left a wife & 3 children, the youngest was 12mths old. He was buried in St John the Divine churchyard, his wife lived into her 90ys.
A record of the explosion is published in Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910. Author Jack Nadin.
A very true hero Helen your relative was i too appreciate the title with regards "The Cost of Coal" my late father went to work at the age of 13 at BLUNDEL'S pit ie Pem Colliery it was there he had an accident when the roof collapsed in on him ,he survived that thankfully but,was never the same man after.
HoT, your Great Grandfather would have had his work cut out working as a miner while being landlord of the Halfway House.
Don't think my Grt Bradshaw grandfather was a publican George ! All that side of the family were chapel folk who didn't drink. I think maybe Halfway House was classed as an area of Newtown where they lived ?
If I’m not mistaken wasn’t ‘Halfway House,’ a bus stop or quite near. We used to go to Pemberton every Sunday and I seem to remember my mam asking for bus tickets to ‘Halfway House’…..