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NORTH LANCASHIRE
REPORT by ANTHONY AUSTIN, ESQ., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the Mines and Quarries in the North of Lancashire and on the State, Condition and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons.
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REPORT by ANTHONY AUSTIN, ESQ., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the Mines and Quarries in the North of Lancashire.
COLLIERIES. - Blackburn Union.
No.1 LITTLE HARWOOD COLLIERY.
No.2 In the OSWALDTWISTLE DISTRICT.
No.3 DUCKWORTH HILL COLLIERY.
No.4 The OVER DARWIN COAL-MINE, Messrs. Holden and Shorrock.
No.5 The ELESON-FOLD COAL-WORKS, Messrs. Blandwood's.
No.6 HEIGHT COLLIERY, Mr. Eccles Shorrock.
No.7 MARCH COLLIERY.
No.8 SOUGH COLLIERY, Mr. P. Smalley, Entwistle.
No.9 OLD LIONS COLLIERY, Mr. John Tattelral.
No.10 WINTER HILL COAL MINE.
BURNLEY UNION.
No.1 MARSDEN LOWER PIT.
No.2 BURNLEY HILL COAL WORKS.
No.3 GAWTHORP and IGHTON HILL COLLIERIES.
No.4 HAGGATE COAL-WORKS.
No.5 VICARAGE COAL MINE.
No.6 DRIFT MINE, Executors of the late J. Hargreaves, Esq.
RULES, ORDERS AND REGULATIONS OF the COLLIER'S BURIAL SOCIETY, Held at Back Lane National School. Established October, 1836.
No.7 BURNT HILLS. Executors of the late J. Hargreaves, Esq.
No.8 FULL EDGE. Thomas Grimshaw, Esq.
No.9 HIGHER MARSDEN PIT. Executors of the late J. Hargreaves, Esq.
No.10 FOXCLOUGH PIT. Executors of the late J. Hargreaves, Esq
No.11 SIMONSTONE COLLIERY. Messrs. Hargreaves and Whitaker.
No.12 ATHAM COAL MINE. Altham Mining Company.
NATURE OF THE EMPLOYMENT.
MEALS.
ACCIDENTS.
HIRING AND WAGES.
TREATMENT AND CARE.
PHYSICAL CONDITION.
EFFECT OF THIS WORK ON AFTER-LIFE.
MORAL CONDITION.
GENERAL ACCOUNT of all the SCHOOLS within the Parish of Blackburn,
General Abstract of Annual Reports of the Parish of Blackburn.
SLATE QUARRIES AT KRIKBY IRELETH, NEAR ULVERSTON.
COPPER MINE AT CHURCH CONISTON.
HOURS OF WORK.
NATURE OF THE EMPLOYMENT.
STATE OF THE PLACE OF WORK.
ACCIDENTS.
WAGES.
TREATMENT AND CARE.
EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY ANTHONY AUSTIN, Esq.
No.1 Mr Richard Ashton, relieving officer of the Blackburn district.
No.2 Mr. Thomas Whalley, relieving officer of the Over Darwin district, Blackburn.
No.3. William Forrest.
No.4 Joseph Wareing.
No.5 Mr. Townley Townley, relieving officer of the Oswaldtwistle district
of the Blackburn Union.
No.6 Mr. James Pickop, of Blackburn. May 23rd.
No.7 Mr. William Gaulter, of Over Darwin. May 24th.
No.8 Mr. Wm. Hutchinson.
Red Delph Pit, Over Darwin.
No.9 William Holt.
No.10 William Almond.
No.11 C. Bradley, Esq., surgeon, inspector of children under the Factories Act.
No.12 John Gallowary, drawer, or sometimes getter at Park Colliery near
Oswaldtwistle.
No.13 Charles Bradley, Esq., surgeon.
No.14 Mr. J. Robinson, relieving officer.
No.15 Rev. Thomas G. James, incumbent of Habergam Eaves.
No.17 Betty Duxberry, hand-loom weaver Over Darwin. May 26th.
No.18 A witness who wishes his name to be omitted.
Description of the Bank Moor Colliery.
No.19. Evidence of the man who manages the machinery at the Bank Moor Coal Mine.
ULVERSTONE.
SLATE QUARRIES AND STONE SAW-MILLS.
No.20 Mr. John Pearson Postlethwaite, attorney-at-law, son of the lessee of one of the slate quarries at Kirkby Ireleth. May 8th.
No.21 Mr. Joseph Jopling, agent for Lord Burlington.
No.22 Mr. Postlethwaite, sen., leesee of the three quarries.
CHURCH CONISTON. - COPPER MINE.
No.23 Mr. John Barrett. May 10th.
No.24. John Borrick.
No.25 Mark Millican.
No.26 ------- Jackson.
No.27 Ann High.
No.28 Anna Fleming.
No.29 Rev. Thomas Tolming, incumbent of Coniston Church.
REPORT by JOSEPH FLETCHER, ESQ., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the neighbourhood of Oldham
Proportions of each Age and Sex employed in the Mines of those Oldham Districts
which had made Returns.
OLDHAM
Stanley and Scolefield, Broadway Lane.
James Clegg, Pauldin Wood.
Taylor, Milne and Co., Burnedge Colliery, Crompton.
James Collinge and Co., Glodwick Colliery, Greenacres Moor.
James Lees, Jones and Booth, Greenacres Moor.
Ainsworth and Lees. Pit Bank Colliery.
Joseph Jones jnr., and Co., Chamber Lane and other collieries.
William Wrigley, Low Side Colliery, Glodwick.
ASHTON.
Jonah Kirkshaw, Prestbooth Colliery, Todmorden.
Whittaker and Lees, Hurst.
ROCHDALE.
John Kirkshaw, Prestbooth Colliery., Todmorden.
Edmund Jackson, Hade's Colliery, Hurdle and Mardle.
Haywood Coal Company, Captain Fold Colliery.
I - STATE OF THE PLACE OF WORK.
II - AGE.
III - NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT.
IV - HOURS OF WORK.
V - MEALS.
VI - HOLIDAYS.
VII - HIRING AND WAGES.
Average Wages of the Young People employed in Collieries in the Oldham District, according to the Employer's Returns.
VIII - TREATMENT AND CARE.
IX - ACCIDENTS.
ACCIDENTS demanding Surgical Assistance, which have occurred in the Pits of the CHAMBER and WERNETH COLLIERY COMPANY, OLDHAM,
during the years 1840-1.
Adults.
Young Persons.
Children.
X - PHYSICAL CONDITION.
XI - MORAL CONDITION.
XII - EDUCATION.
ST. PETER'S SUNDAY SCHOOL PLAN.
STATISTICS OF INSTRUCTION from the RETURNS made by the Employers of Young People in the Oldham District in the Spring of 1841.
XII - COMPARATIVE CONDITION.
EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY JOSEPH FLETCHER, Esq.
COLLIERIES NEAR OLDHAM.
No.1. Andrew Knowles, Esq., colliery proprietor and worked. October 26th. 1841.
No.2 Joseph Jones jnr. Esq., mill and colliery proprietor. Oldham, Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.3 Mr. Henry Garforth, aged 37, late book-keeper and cashier for Messrs. Lees and Jones and previously dialling (surveyor) mines. Oct. 28th. 1841.
No.4 Mr. John Ogden, chief agent of Messrs. Joseph Jones, jun., and Co., of Chamber, Werneth, Hunt Lane and Copster Hill Collieries, near Oldham, commonly called
the Chamber Company. Nov. 1st. 1841.
PAPERS REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING EVIDENCE.
No.3 A FEW WORDS on the Nature and Utility of the DAVY SAFETY LAMP. Addressed to the Coal Miners.
No.4 CHAMBER and WERNETH COLLIERIES.
No.5 A LIST of the PITS of the CHAMBER and WERNETH COMPANY, and a Return of the Number of PERSONS employed in them. Friday, December 11th. 1840.
No.5 Cornelius Backhouse, head viewer to Messrs. Jones and Co. Nov. 1st. 1841.
No.6 Emanuel Morris Edwards, 42 years of age, underlooker for the
Fairbottom Company at two of their pits in the Ashton Road. Oct. 129th. 1841.
No.7 Samuel Walkden, collier in the employment of Mr. Wrigley, at the
Low Side Mine, for between 18 and 20 years. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.8 James Warrener, 69 years of age. Oct. 19th. 1841.
No.9 John Walkden aged 37 and son of Samuel above examined. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.10 James Taylor, alias Lump Lad, going on 11. Oct. 31st. 1841.
No.11 William Mason, going in 187. October 31st. 1841.
No.12 Robert Tweddale, going on 14. October, 31st. 1841.
No.13 Joseph Gott, aged 53, underlooker, Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.14 Richard Barker aged 46, a labouring collier 4th. Nov. 1841.
No.15 John Gordon aged 35, Nov. 4th 1841.
No.16 Edmund Stanley, aged 34, Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.17 Benjamin Stanley going 12. Nov. 4th 1841.
No.18 Arthur Gordon, going on 9. 4th. Nov. 1841.
No.19 William Gordon, going on 14. 14th. Nov. 1841.
No.20 William Dronsfield, going on 18 4th. Nov. 1841.
No.21 John Buckley aged 49, Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.22 Mr. James Clegg, proprietor of the colliery at Pauldin Wood, near Oldham. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.23 John Jones, Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.24 Thomas Jones, Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.25 James Jones. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.26 Henry Jones. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.27 John Jones. Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.28 Samuel Hall, late bookkeeper at Mr. Abraham Lee's colliery.
No.29 James Urmson, collier.
No.30 Edward Taylor, collier.
No.31 Robert Grimshaw, collier.
No.32 Benjamin Jackson, collier.
No.33 Abraham Taylor, collier.
No.34 Joseph Byrom, bookkeeper to Messrs. Stanley and Schofield, Broadway Lane Colliery. Nov. 3rd. 1841.
No.35 Moses Mills, underlooker at the Hunt Lane Mines. Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.36 James Woods, engineer at one of the Hunt Lane Pits going on 16 years of age. Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.37 Thomas Whittaker engineer at one of the Hunt Lane Pits, going on 17. Nov. 4th. 1841.
No.38 Cyrus Taylor, engineer at one of the Slibber Pits, going on 13. Nov. 5th. 1841.
No.39 Mr. Joseph Wild. chief constable of Oldham. Nov. 1st. 1841.
No.40 The Rev. John Fallowfield, curate of St. Mary's, Oldham.
No.41 The Rev. William Lees, curate of St. Peter's in the parish of Oldham.
Oct. 29th. 1841.
No.42 The Rev. Wm. F. Walker, curate of St. James's Oldham. Nov.5th. 1841.
Sunday Schools in Oldham.