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The Leycett Colliery Disaster: friends of the miners waiting at the pit mouth, 1880. Creator: Unknown.

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The Leycett Colliery Disaster: friends of the miners waiting at the pit mouth, 1880. '...explosion at the Leycett Colliery, near Newcastle-under-Lyne, Staffordshire, on Wednesday of last week, by which sixty or seventy lives were lost...[View of] the distressed friends, wives, and children, or parents, brothers, and sisters, of the unfortunate men who were known to have been at work below, despondently awaiting the result of a continued search in the subterranean galleries and recesses. That part of the Leycett Colliery, belonging to the Crewe Iron and Coal Company, in which this disaster took place, is the Fair Lady Pit, opened about a twelvemonth ago; and its levels were driven through the seven-foot Bambury seam of coal, which is very "fiery" or productive of carburetted hydrogen gas, called by the miners "fire-damp." The dead bodies of Mr. Greener and his son were sent up in the afternoon, with nine others, and this sad work continued next day. The burial of sixty-two of the dead took place in Madely churchyard on Sunday. An inquest has been opened, and a subscription to relieve the distressed families has also been commenced'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880. (Colorised black and white print).

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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41.2Mo (4.4Mo) / 28.1cm x 36.7cm / 3324 x 4335 (300dpi)

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England female women woman people male child children man men waiting family families arts light night industry marriage dark art guy fire British color county death distress industrial accident explosion mining miners miner darkness location century Britain newspapers press print company concept grief incident distressed wives wife time of day Staffordshire distraught coal mine grieving coal mining engraved engraving colourised Colour Coal Industry 19th century deaths coal miner nineteenth century The Print Collector brazier colliery Illustrated London News industrial accident TGN wood engraving ILN firedamp newspaper Unknown colorised Newcastle under Lyme Newcastle-Under-Lyme coalmine 19th-century The Illustrated London News Crewe Iron and Coal Company Fair Lady Pit Leycett Leycett Colliery