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In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.
Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.
At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.
This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.
The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!
The San Jose Mine, or Mina San Jose, located just north of the town of Copiapo is best known for the 2010 disaster when 33 miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground for 17 days before being rescued.
Brierley Forest Park is the landscaped site of Sutton Colliery, Notts. It was known locally as Brierley Pit after the miners from Brierley Hill, Staffs, who came to sink the pit in the 1870s. It is now a nature reserve.
This is the memorial to the five miners who died in the 1957 disaster at Sutton Colliery.
This image is part of a slide show marking the Centenary of the Bellbird Mine Disaster. This disaster occurred on 1 September 1923 when a fire broke out in Hetton-Bellbird Colliery and 21 mineworkers and their horses were killed in the accident.
Coal Services (Mines Rescue) and the Mining and Energy Union (MEU), together with the Coalfields Local Historical Association, will host an event to commemorate the centenary of the Disaster.
The ceremony will take place at 11am on Friday, 1 September 2023, at the Bellbird Miners Memorial Park (506 Wollombi Road, Bellbird NSW 2325). Those wishing to attend are asked to please RSVP via stks.be/bellbird-disaster-centenary or alternatively by calling Jenny McPherson (MEU) on 1300 712 791 no later than Monday 28 August 2023.
Source:Terrible Mine Disaster at Cessnock (1923, September 5). Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), p. 13.