Papers of the Sunderland Society for Preventing Accidents in Coal Mines

Item date: 1813 - 1849
Grant Value: 350
Item cost: 2,640
Item date acquired: 1984
Item institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear

These papers show a committee keen to enquire into the problem of ventilation and the causes of gas accumulation in order to lessen the shocking number of fatalities in the pits of the early 19thcentury

Item Provenance
Sothebys December 1983, Lot 362