North Band and Barton Company

The North Band and Barton Company was a gold mining company in Redan, 1880-1895

Site
The company operated three shafts: 1. In the middle of the block - Bell Street, Campbells Crescent and Yarrowee Parade. 2. North west corner Bell Street and Yarrowee Parade (1885) 3. North west of the corner of Bell Street and Campbell Crescent.

Background
The company amalgamated with the Band and United Barton Company in 1882.

In 1895 the company amalgamated with the Sir Henry Loch Company, which in turn amalgamated with the Band of Hope and Albion Consols Company in 1898.

History
There was a fatal accident at the No. 1 shaft of the mine in April 1883: "FATAL MINING ACCIDENT. BALLARAT, Friday Evening. A fatal accident happened in the mine of the North Band and Barton Company, at Redan, this afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, by which a young man named Henry Brown, twenty-two years of age, was killed. It appears that deceased had occasion to go from a lower level to one above, and entered the cage for that purpose, and gave the usual signal. While the cage was in the shaft, about 230ft. up, and only 2ft. from where Brown intended getting out, a link in the chain used to connect the cage with the rope snapped, and the cage, together with the unfortunate minor, was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. Deceased was killed instantaneously, his neck being broken and his legs fractured. Brown had been working in the mine where he met his death about twelve months, having formerly been engaged in cab driving in this city. From a letter which was lying at the Atlantic hotel, awaiting the poor follow when he should come up after finishing his shift, and which was opened by Senior-constable Brennan, it appears that he has a sister residing at Maryborough, and so far as is known, he has no other relation in the colony. The body was removed to the Atlantic hotel, and an inquest will be held by Mr. Thomson, P.M., to-morrow. Mr. Stewart, inspector of mines, in company with a miner, had only ascended in the same cage a short time previously, when everything appeared safe."

Miners

 * Henry Brown, miner, aged 22, killed in an accident, 1882.