MICKLEFIELD. Leeds, Yorkshire. 30th. April, 1896.

The colliery was the property of Messrs. Joseph Cliff and Sons and was opened out by this firm about 22 years before the disaster. There were two seams of coal being worked at the time of the disaster, the Upper, the Beeston Bed where the explosion occurred and to which it was confined, and the Lower, Black Bed seam. The coal in the Beeston Bed was mainly steam coal, hard strong, not friable and easily broken. The Section of the Beeston Bed to the south of the East and West Levels, in the Dip, was damp and that to the north of these levels on the rise although drier, was not fiery.

Those who died were:-

Noah Ball aged 37 years
William Barker aged 40 years
James Benson aged 56 years
George Benson aged 24 years
Fred Benson aged 14 years
Elias Clarke aged 20 years
William Dean aged 37 years
Thomas Everett aged 27 years
Sam Godber aged 16 years
George Hayes aged 17 years
William Herring aged 31 years
Sam James age unknown
Jos. Johnson aged 50 years
Tom Longden aged 43 years
Edward Maggs aged 26 years
Henry Martin aged 56 years
Harold Martin aged 56 years
John Meakin aged 34 years
Job Millership aged 52 years
George Moakes aged 55 years
Charles Noble aged 33 years
Thomas Oakeley aged 50 years
William Shelfdon aged 34 years
Richard Shepherd aged 28 years
Charles Shepherd aged 68 years
James Shillito aged 50 years
David Shillito aged 55 years
John Shillito age unknown
John Sutton age unknown
Charles Swift aged 35 years
Dan. Taylor aged 25 years
William Varey age unknown
John Wallis aged 48 years
Robert Westerman aged 36 years
Joseph Whitaker aged 55 years
Amos Whitaker aged 32 years
William Naylor Whitaker age unknown
George Whitaker aged 22 years
William Wilks aged 47 years
Joseph Winfield age unknown
Walter Winfield age unknown
Herbert Winfield age unknown
Edward Goodall age unknown
Joseph Jackson aged 30 years
Walter Jackson aged 28 years
Rayner Scrimshaw aged 22 years
Arthur Simpson aged 24 years
John Simpson aged 26 years
George Simpson aged 21 years
Henry Talbot aged 41 years
Sam Goodall age unknown
Arthur Howson aged 10 years
William Stead age unknown
Jos. Wilson aged 60 years
Alfred Wilson aged 19 years
Harry Bellerby aged 19 years
Fred Bellerby age unknown
Frank Edwards aged 35 years
Alfred Norton aged 28 years
M. Rockyard age unknown
James Wilson aged 30 years
George Dunnington aged 20 years
William Radford aged 56

Peckfield Colliery Disaster Monument - Winfield Brothers

Peckfield Colliery Disaster Monument