{"id":2755,"date":"2026-04-10T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=2755"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:17:44","slug":"george-hepworth-1856","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=2755","title":{"rendered":"1856 &#8211; George Hepworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Hepworth was killed at the T.M Cater &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater colliery on 27th June 1856.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-1024x583.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-1536x874.png 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-MDV-2048x1166.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI-1536x843.png 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Hepworth-CMADI.png 1780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Inspectors report into the incident gave the following conclusion;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-573x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-573x1024.png 573w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-168x300.png 168w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-768x1372.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-860x1536.png 860w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-1147x2048.png 1147w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-cover-scaled.png 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-1024x280.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-1024x280.png 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report-1536x420.png 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-Inspectors-report.png 1984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Transcript of the above report<\/strong><br>Accident No. 26 in the Tabular List.<br>At Allerton Bywater Colliery, near Pontefract, a young boy was imprudently crossing from one side of the shaft to the other, underground, when he was crushed, unaware by the descending cage, and killed on the spot.<br>There was not a road excavated along side this pit bottom, (as there should have been,) to enable persons to pass unexposed to the danger attendant on falling substances in shafts; I therefore advised the agent forthwith to make such alterations as would tend to obviate the recurrence of similar mishaps in future; and he readily consented to carry my suggestions into effect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>George Hepworth was from Lofthouse. He was burried at Rothwell church June 29th 1856 aged 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1856-burial-1-2048x1599.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hepworth was killed at the T.M Cater &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater colliery on 27th June 1856. The Inspectors report into the incident gave the following conclusion; Transcript of the above reportAccident No. 26 in the Tabular List.At Allerton Bywater Colliery, near Pontefract, a young boy was imprudently crossing from one side of the shaft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template\/fullwidth.php","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2755","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2755\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}