Durham Mining Museum - Newspaper Articles (original) (raw)

23rd May 1910

The Whitehaven Pit Disaster

Mayor's Relief Fund

The total amount received on Saturday for this fund was £2,694 16s. The principal donations were as follows :—

Phillip H. Holt, Liverpool, £25 ; D. H. Brockbank, St. Bees, £52 10s. ; collection, Free Churches, St. Anne's-on-Sea, £30 ; members of London Stock Exchange, first instalment, £1,000 ; Wesleyan Church, Salisbury Park, collection, £12 10s. ; Clydesdale Bank, Whitehaven, £105 ; Shank and Co., Glasgow, £10 10s. ; J. N. Dickinson, Cockermouth, £50 ; collection, St. John's Church, Carlisle, £15 15s. 6d. ; Alfred G. Vanderbilt, London, £105 ; Harold Brocklebank, Hawkshead, £52 10s. ; Joseph Harris, Carlisle, £50 ; collections Free Church Council service, Bingley, £8 10s. ; Thomas Leach, Rochdale, £10 ; collection Christian Church, Bromwich, £20 1s. 11d. ; collection, St. Mary's Church, Egremont, £23 2s. 6d. ; Rev. H. A. P. Sawyer, St. Bees, £25 ; L. B. Turner, Devon, £10 ; collection, St. Margaret's, Ilkley, £50 ; collection, St. Peter's Church, Swinton, £19 2s. 6d. ; Haggie Bros. (Limited), Gateshead-on-Tyne, £52 10s. ; Broughton-in-Furness, church collection, £25 11s. ; Joseph Fisher, Cockermouth, £20 ; S. Turner, Whitehaven, £10 10s. ; collection, Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, £19 12s. 5d. ; H. and W. Adair, Whitehaven, £15 15s. ; S. Cadbury Bros. (Limited), Bourneville, £52 10s. ; United Council service, Congregational church, Cockermouth, £10 ; collection, Brigham Church, £10 12s. 2d. ; Brown, Auld, and Brown, Whitehaven, £20 ; W. Halton and Son, £10 10s. ; W. Burneyat and W. J. Dalzell Burneyat, £105 ; Mr. Newbould, St. Bees, £10.

A meeting of the Whitehaven miners has been held, and they have decided to resume work at William Pit to-day.