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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.
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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.
The Oaks explosion, which happened at a coal mine in West Riding of Yorkshire on 12 December 1866, remains the worst mining disaster in England.A series of explosions caused by firedamp ripped through the underground workings at the Oaks Colliery at Hoyle Mill near Stairfoot in Barnsley killing 361 miners and rescuers.