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Coal mining disasters in England (38 P) This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
Pages in category "Coal mining disasters in England" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
Mining disasters in Scotland (1 C, 1 P) W. Mining disasters in Wales (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 18:14 (UTC). Text is available under ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
The disaster at Senghenydd has provided the backdrop to two printed works of historical fiction: Alexander Cordell's This Sweet and Bitter Earth (1977) [108] and Cwmwl dros y Cwm (2013) by Gareth F. Williams. [109] In 1981 a memorial to those lost in the disaster was unveiled by the National Coal Board.
Fundraising postcard issued after the Maypole Colliery disasterin which 76 men were killed in 1908 Monument to the Pretoria Pit disaster in which 344 men died in 1910. This is a list of mining accidents in the historic county of Lancashire at which five or more people were killed.
Tay Bridge disaster: A European windstorm on 28 December 1879 caused the Tay Rail Bridge to collapse, killing between 60 and 75 people. 1881: Eyemouth disaster: 189 fishermen died during a storm in Scotland. 1881: Blizzard of January 1881: Around 100 die in one of the most severe blizzards ever to hit the southern parts of the United Kingdom. 1884