Newlands Mill Disaster - Bradford, UK - Disaster Memorials on Waymarking.com

Newlands Mill was part of the vast Ripley Mills complex which spanned Parma Street and Upper Castle Street. Over 2,000 people worked in the mills and many were children.

There had been extensive coal and iron mining on the site of the mill complex and a warren of tunnels and excavations ran under the buildings. Despite some opposition at the time the tall chimney was built directly over the old pit shaft which had been filled in with wood and other debris.

On Wednesday, 27th December, 1882 workers returned to Newlands Mill in West Bowling after their Christmas break. The following day, shortly after 8am, workers were at their morning breakfast break when the mill's massive chimney collapsed. 54 people were killed and many more injured. link

The memorial consists of a stone taken from the defunct Bradford Canal, with a bronze plaque on it. The plaque has a small relief carving of the mill disaster and a list of the people who died.

In the pavement next to the memorial there are pink paving stones representing the number of people that died. In effect they are laid out like a histogram. Each line of the histogram is labelled with the age of the people that died.

The text on the block is as follows

THIS MEMORIAL IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO
SUFFERED AND DIED IN THE NEWLANDS MILL DISASTER OF
THURSDAY 28TH DECEMBER 1882

	Age		Age		Age
Susan Woodhead	8	Amy Goodyear	14	Jane Egens	19
Mary Hannah Clifford	11	Mary Henderson	15	Lavinia Cooper	19
Sarah Jane Crowther	11	Charlotte H. Loasby	15	Ruth Ann Denby	20
Edgar North	12	Urina Hicks	15	Margaret Firth	21
Lydia Nightowler	12	Dan Delaney	15	Margaret A. Travers	21
Emma Pearson	12	Martha A. Rodger	15	Ellen Lumb	21
Arthur Smith	12	Bridget Ryan	15	Naney Sagar	21
Hannah E. Narey	13	Ellen Hawthorp	15	William Shackleton	21
Hartley Balmer	13	Mary Brown	16	Elizabeth Oldrid	21
Emily Mitchell	13	George Boldy	16	Sarah Holt	23
Sarah J. Hendeerson	13	Annie Akroyd	16	Annie C. Higginds	23
James Henry Hancock	14	Sarah J. Burley	17	Martha Sant	25
Joseph E. Boldy	14	Martha Mathers	17	May E. Wilson	28
Lily Burley	14	Emily Sunderland	17	Mary Lodge	31
John W. Ramsbottom	14	Harriet Hall	18	Selina Woodhead	32
Honora McEvan	14	Sarah Whelan	18	John Pollard	33
Walter Hicks	14	Clara Pearson	19	Mary Ryan	45
Ruth Firth	14	Arthur Webster	19	Charles Smith	50

Disaster Date: 12/28/1882 Date of dedication: 12/17/2002 Memorial Sponsors: Bradford Trident 'New Deal For Communities' Regeneration Project Disaster Type: Technological Relevant Website: [Web Link] Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

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