{"id":3184,"date":"2025-01-01T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:00:17","slug":"1856-george-hepworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3184","title":{"rendered":"1856 &#8211; George Hepworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Hepworth was killed at the T.M Carter &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater colliery on 27th June 1856. He was 10 years old.<\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 Carter &amp; Co. Allerton Bywater colliery on 27th June 1856. He was 10 years old. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127,126,121],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[108,117],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allerton-bywater-colliery-carter-co","category-carter-co","category-colliery-deaths","author-mick","author-shep76"],"authors":[{"term_id":108,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mick","display_name":"Mick","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/admin_avatar-128x128-1.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":117,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"shep76","display_name":"Neil Shepherdson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ABH-Researchers-256px-150x150.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abhistory.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}