Remembrance Sunday
Nov. 12th, 2006 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe old winding house stands dramatically alone among the fields, and sheltering within it is this memorial to the 95 men and boys killed in an explosion at Haswell Colliery on 28th September 1844. A blast in the Little Pit killed 19 boys and 76 men; 4 miners survived.
(Information from the Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project).
(Information from the Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project).
