Gallery
- Local Area
Wood
Lane
At least fifteen
of the men who died at Diglake Colliery were from the Wood Lane
/ Tomfields area. However, the 1891 census pages which would
have covered the Wood Lane area were lost at the time the census
was compiled, so there may be others.
Alfred
and Abram Hopwood, 18 and 15 year old brothers, driver on
the East 7-foot and waggoner on the East 10-foot seam
Alfred Hodgkinson 14 year old driver on the pit guage
John Riley 46 year old collier
on the East 7-foot seam
Charles Vernon 30 year old father of two and collier on
the East 10-foot seam
Enoch Sproson 25 year old husband of Ellen and loader on the
East 10-foot seam
Thomas Sproson 45 year old father of eight and contractor of the East 7-foot
seam
Frank Thomas Sproson 14 year old son of Thomas Sproson (above) and engine
driver on the East 7-foot seam
Henry Clough 19
year old loader on the East 7-foot seam and adopted son of Thomas Sproson
(above)
William Sproson 43 year old widower, father of 7and
fireman on the East 10-foot seam, brother of Thomas (above)
Fred Lowe 28 year
old father of two and loader
on the East 10-foot seam
James and
John Edmund Platt, 17 and 19 year old brothers, waggoner
and jigger
on the East 10-foot seam
Samuel Cork 38
year old father of three and collier on the East 10-foot seam
Thomas Alkins 49
year old father of nine and collier on the East 10-foot seam
Tomfields (BrendaG 2006)
Tomfields (BrendaG 2006)
High Street, Wood Lane (2006 BrendaG)
High Street, Wood Lane from the opposite direction (BrendaG 2006)
