Aspects of Barnsley 7: Discovering Local History by Brian Elliott

Author:Brian Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS000000: HISTORY / General
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783378883
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2002-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 6. The memorial to the Swaithe Main disaster, St Thomas’ churchyard, Worsbrough Dale. Brian Elliott

Figure 7. An Edmunds & Swaithe Collieries Co., Ltd., share certificate of 1879. John Goodchild Collection

In September 1875, Mitchell had reached the Barnsley Bed at his new colliery, Mitchell Main, in coal leased near Aldham Junction, below Swaithe Main; his partners were Mr Worms, the great Paris coal merchant, and H Josse of Grimsby. But Mitchell was claimed at the time to have been much affected by the Swaithe disaster of the end of that year; he was also a busy man as a Union Guardian, chairman of the Worsbrough Local Board, on the School Board and an active Freemason, until his death, in January 1876. He was buried in St Thomas’s churchyard and a Memorial Hall subsequently built at Worsbrough Dale. Mitchell was succeeded by his wife and their two sons, and it was from that, for £18,232, Tyas and Bartholomew bought Mitchell’s one-third share in Edmunds and Swaithe, in April 1878.

In February 1879 the partners turned the concern into a limited liability company, with the substantial capital of £125,000, but without participation by persons outside the two families concerned (Figure 7). The subscribers were:

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