A bit more information for you Dickd1:
Glossopdale Chronicle
12 September 1874.
the gisborne colliery. We understand that the new shaft at the above colliery has nearly reached the appointed depth, and that a great abundance of coal is expected to be met with.
Gisborne Pit:
Workings:
Shaft 127 yards deep to:
A 9" Coal Seam - "Callen 7" Mine at 29 yds deep
Red Ash or 18" Mine - worked out 1885 at 65 yds deep
White Ash or Smithy Mine - 20" thick at 87 yds deep
worked between 1867 and 1903
(The Waterloo's "Little Mine" on the White
Ash level was worked out on 23 Oct 1891.)
Cannel Coal - thin, not worked in 1885 at 110 yds deep
(At this level the Waterloo Colliery had its
"Big Mine" of coal 55" thick, which was worked
out in 1893. Its "Mountain Mine" was 200 yds
below this level, at 310 yds deep.)
Mountain Mine or Yard Mine or Kiln Coal - at 127 yds deep
worked between 1868 and 1875, when stone
headings were abandoned. Reopened in
1903 and closed down again in 1911. The
workings led to and joined the Boothman's
Old Engine Shaft of the DRUM AND MONKEY
PIT shaft is 60 yds deep.
I don’t know if the following reported accident occurred at Waterloo Pit and it probably didn’t because Buxton Lime took over the pit some years later.
But nevertheless it is interesting if only because Doctor Allan doesn’t seem to have turned up.
Glossopdale Chronicle
13 May 1871
coal pit accident. On Friday week a youth named Joseph Ashmore, son of John Ashmore of Whaley Bridge, met with an accident whilst engaged in the pit belonging to the Buxton Lime Company, at the same place. From the report in the district it appears that while at work a large quantity of dirt fell from the roof and caught him, crushing him very much. He is not dangerously hurt although if the full weight of the debris had come upon him, he might have been killed.
Dangerous place Whaley.
R. S-S