Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
Mining
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The Maypole Colliery 1908
Photo: artful
Photo: artful
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Item #: 14594
Item #: 14594
London Illustrated News 29 August 1908.
Caption Loss of Seventy lives in a burning mine at Wigan" (1)The blown off ventilating pipes (ii)Smoke from the burning pit (iii)Nurses at the pithead (iv)The coroner on his way to make arrangements for the inquest (v)the three rescued men (vi)the wrecked head of the shaft (vii)Mr J Knowles Manager (viii)Wreckage at the pithead (ix)Reading the king's message
Caption Loss of Seventy lives in a burning mine at Wigan" (1)The blown off ventilating pipes (ii)Smoke from the burning pit (iii)Nurses at the pithead (iv)The coroner on his way to make arrangements for the inquest (v)the three rescued men (vi)the wrecked head of the shaft (vii)Mr J Knowles Manager (viii)Wreckage at the pithead (ix)Reading the king's message
Recently I was able to get the names of everyone who lost their life at Moorgreen Colliery, Nottingham.
Does anyone have the names of colliers killed in Wigan?
Comment by: Helen on 19th April 2010 at 09:04
Christine I have the names of miners killed in the King Pit disaster at Pemberton in 1877, as well as lists of the dead in other Lancashire colliery disasters. My Grt Grandfather was one of the 36 men & boys who died at Pemberton.
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