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Maypole Pit Disaster Aug 18th 1908
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Survivors
Photo: RON HUNT
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 26005
Item #: 26005
A clearer photograph than the one already on this topic, submitted by Frank Walford
Comment by: Giovanni on 11th February 2015 at 12:40
What brave men.
In 6 years they would be cannon fodder in the Great War!!
Comment by: tuddy on 11th February 2015 at 20:51
I don't know about the other two, but Edward Farrell lived until the 1940s.
My Grandfather was one of the rescuers.In the book about the disaster, there is a photo of some of them. He is the one on the extreme left.
I believe that Edward Farrell was my great uncle...my grandmother's brother who came from Carrowkeel, Bohola in Co.Mayo.
Comment by: Mary Ashton on 10th July 2015 at 14:10
My grandad William Moore also survived, he was actually listed as one of the dead on the memorial poster. he had left the shift early after feeling ill, but had not handed on his tally. He died wen I was 3 in 1965, in his seventies
Comment by: Doreen ainscough catterall on 2nd September 2022 at 19:17
Billy (Doran) Catterall died October 1969 and was the last of the 3 to survive. He was only 18 when rescued
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