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Cortonwood Worker’s Death

August 1942

South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 August 1942

Cortonwood Worker’s Death

Mr. Thomas Hudson (59), of 69, Milton Street, Wombwell, died on Tuesday of last week at Colet House, Rhyl, North Wales, a South Yorkshire Miners’ Welfare Convalescent Home.

He was convalescing from injuries received in an accident at Cortonwood Colliery in February of this year and had been there only five days.

The inquest at Rhyl Town Hall last Wednesday was adjourned until to-day (Friday) after evidence of identification had been given by a brother, Mr. J. Hudson. Mr. Hudson was working on a stack of timber in the pityard, when he fell and fractured a bone in his foot. He was operated upon at Beckett Hospital, Barnsley, where he remained for five weeks.

A son of the late Mr. William Hudson, a miner at Cortonwood, Mr. Hudson had remained single. He had worked at Cortonwood 46 years, never having known any other employers.

The interment took place at Wombwell ion Saturday. Funeral arrangements were by Mr. H. L. Guest, undertaker and funeral director, 21, Park Street, Wombwell (phone Wombwell 178).