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Fionn Taylor, Bob Bradley and Alan Beales at the Gedling Miners Memorial

Bob Bradley and Alan Beales at the Gedling Miners Memorial

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Many coal mining disasters of the early 20th century were covered by the photographer
Warner Gothard of Barnsley

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Mining Memorials in Scotland Jim Henry

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In Memory World War I and World War II

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In Memory Mine Disasters

Aberfan, Oct. 1966 Auchengeich Disaster, 18th Sept, 1959 Barrow Colliery, Barnsley, 1907 Bentley Colliery Disaster, Nov 1931 Bilsthorpe Disaster 1927 Bilsthorpe Colliery between 1927 and 1997 Bilsthorpe Colliery Memorial Statue Brinsley Memorial Brownhills Memorial Burradon Memorial Cadbey Main Disaster, Yorkshire 1912 Calverton Colliery Caprington, Ayr, Scotland 1909 Cardiff Bay Creswell Memorial Crigglestone Colliery 1873 - 1968 Easington Disaster - 29 May 1951 Garden Pit Memorial Gedling Miners Memorial Gresford Disaster 1934 Haig Pit, Whitehaven, 5th Sept 1922 Haig Pit, 12th Feb 1928 Hapton Valley Colliery Explosion 1962 Hickleton Main Colliery Memorial Hucknall No1 Colliery Hucknall No2 Colliery Huskar, Moorend Pit, 4 July 1838. Ince Moss Colliery, 6 Sept 1871 Kent Coal Fields Knockshinnoch Memorial

Leycett Colliery Disaster, 21 Jan 1880 Lundhill Explosion, Barnsley, Yorkshire - 1857 Commemorative plaque given to the family Maltby Colliery Memorial Mapperley Collieries WW1 Marine Colliery Disaster 1927, Monmouthshire Markham Memorial Minnie Pit Memorial Markham Colliery, Disaster, 10th May 1973 Maypole Memorial, Abram Mossfield Colliery Disaster 1889 Muirkirk Parkhouse Colliery Diasaster 188 - Death toll 45 Pye Hill Number 1 Colliery Plain Pit. Rainton, Durham. 1817 Sneyd Colliery Explosion Jan 1st 1942 Snowdown Colliery St. Helens Mining Monument Stanley Site - West Hallam, Derbyshire Summit Colliery, Memorial, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Thoresby Colliery Memorial Trimdon Grange, Durham. 16th Feb 1882 Underwood Memorial Universal - Senghenydd, Glamorganshire, 1913 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Wellington Pit Monument - Whitehaven, 11 May 1910 West Stanley, Durham, 1909 Wharncliffe Woodmore Explosion, 6 Aug 1936 Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr

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Lest We Forget Those Who Died In Our Mines

• Aberfan, Oct. 1966
• Annesley, Notts, 27th June 1877
• Auchengeich Disaster, 18th September, 1959
• Baddesley Pit Explosion. 1st May 1882
• Bentley Colliery Disaster, 20th November, 1932
• Bentley Colliery Paddy Train Disaster, 1978
• Bickershaw Disaster. Leigh, Lancashire. 1942
• Bilsthorpe Disaster 1st March 1927
• Blackwell Winning Colliery, explosion, 11th November 1895
• Bowhill Colliery, Cardenden, 31 October 1931
• Broadfield Explosion 27th June 1843
• Burngrange Colliery 1947.
• Burradon 2nd March, 1860
• Caprington, Ayr, Scotland 1909
• Caprington, Ayr, Scotland 19th September 1855
• Chanters Colliery Disaster, 6th March 1957
• Combs pit, Thornhill Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 4 July1893, 135 lost their lives, explosion
• Coppice: Cheslyn Hay Disaster, Cannock September 1900
• Creswell Disaster 1950 - Pictures And Facts About Some Of Those Who Died
• Crigglestone Pit Disaster 29th July 1941
• Dalquharran Mine, Dailly, near Girvan, Ayrshire
• Diglake Colliery Flooding 1895
• Dumbreck, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire 30th January1938, 9 killed
• Easington Disaster - 29 May 1951
• Edge Green Number 9, - 12th Nov 1932
• Eppleton Colliery Explosion on 6th July 1951
• Fair Lady Pit Explosion 1880
• Felling Explosion 1812
• Gateshead, Northumberland Oct 1705
• Great Western Colliery, the Rhondda Valley, 11th April 1893
• Gresford Disaster 1934
• Haig Pit, Whitehaven, Cumberland No.1. 39 killed, 5th September 1922
• Haig Pit Disasters - 13th Dec. 1927 and 12th Feb. 1928
• Hapton Valley Colliery Explosion Friday 23rd March 1962
• Haswell Colliery, 30 September 1844
• Hebburn Colliery near Paisley
• Holditch, Staffordshire1937, 2nd July, 30 killed
• Hurlet Colliery - 22 April, 1805
• Huskar, Moorend Pit, 4 July 1838.
• Kames, Muirkirk, Ayrshire. 1957, 17 died
• Knockshinnoch Disaster 1950
• Leycett Colliery Explosion, 1871
• Lofthouse Disaster, Yorkshire 1973
• Lundhill Colliery Explosion, 19th February 1857,
• Maltby Main Explosion, Yorkshire 1923
• Marine Colliery Disaster 1927, Monmouthshire
• Markham Colliery, Disaster, 10th May 1938
• Markham Colliery, Overwind Accident, 30th July 1973
• Maypole Disaster 1908
• Michael Colliery, Fife, 9th September, 1967
• Minnie Mine Disaster 1918
• Netherton Colliery, Mary Hill, 5 killed, 6 December, 1850. Also Worcestershire 10th July, 1851, 9 died.
• New Hartley Pit Disaster. Hartley, Durham. 16th January, 1862
• Oaks. Barnsley, Yorkshire 13th December 1866
• Parkhouse Colliery Diasaster 1882 - Death toll was 45 men and boys
• Pretoria Pit Diasaster 1910 - Death toll was 344
• Swaithe Main Disaster 1875
• Rufford Colliery Disaster, Mansfield 7th February 1913 - 14 died
• Tower Colliery, Glamorgan, 12th April 1962
• Trimdon Grange, Durham. 16th February 1882
• Universal, Senghenydd, Glamorgan, 14th October 1913, 440 killed
• Victoria Disaster, Renfrewshire, 15th March 1851
• Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Explosion, 1881
• Wallsend Colliery Explosion 1835
• Walton Colliery, Yorkshire. 5 killed. (explosion) 1959
• West Stanley Disaster 1909
• Weetslade Colliery, Explosion 5 killed 1951
• Wharncliffe Woodmore Explosion, 1936, 58 killed
• Wood Pit. Haydock, Lancashire, 7th June 1878.
• Workington, Cumberland. Isabella, Union And Lady Pits, 1837 - Flood, 24 died

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Lest We Forget
Just a Few Who Died In Our Mines

• Edward Farrell, age 16 a pony driver at Bradford pit was killed Sep 1918.
• Harold Bloodworth, 18 Years Old, Killed Down Rutland Pit, Ilkeston
• William Martin, a Pit Top Boy aged 15, died 2nd Nov 1953 at Harrington No10.
• Charles James Martin, a Deputy aged 41, died 3rd Aug 1941 at William Pit.
• Martin O'Hora1875 to 1907, died at Brodsworth Colliery age 32 years.
• Derrick Smith, his nickname was "Carrots", was killed in Brookhouse in 1958
• George Wilkinson aged 44, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire
  Fall of roof at Bestwood, 20 Feb 1952 (Info from Alan Beales)
• Arthur Wilkinson, aged 42, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire
  Fall of roof Hucknall No 2 25 June 1954 (Info from Alan Beales)

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