Ercall View Colliery, Dawley Bank.

Workers, No.1 pit 17, 1901
Workers, No.3 pit 10, 1901
Owner:Thomas Jones c1905
Owner: Growcott Bros.c1908
Workers, Under Ground 14 | surface 3 1908
Coal, ironstone & pyrites.

1902 Map

Side by side map of  🡪 Wharf Colliery, Dark Lane

Ercall View Colliery comprised of three pits, by 1900 only pits 1 and 3 were being worked, No.1 pit had 17 men and boys working it.

No.3 pit had 10 it was worked by hand as it was only 17 Yards deep, in the August of that year (1900) the owner Mr. Thomas Jones decided to sink it deeper, and entered into an arrangement with Mr. James Shepherd and Mr. James Chirm to sink the pit and work the coal when it was ready, and for that purpose they were to supply their own boiler and engine, On the 16th April 1901 the boiler was working as usual, about one o’clock on that day the engine was standing, and there was a pressure of about 40lb. of steam, when the boiler exploded. Frederick Bailey, the engine driver, was badly scalded, and the youth named Thoms Archer, employed, in the mine, and was in the engine-house at the time, was severely scalded and subsequently died.

Thomas Jones died on the 18th August 1905.

Advertisement, September 1903.