The amount if times I've passed this on my walks along the TPT and today I went to visit it, about 200yards off the TPT. What a lovely touch by the parish of Silkstone Common who erected it in 1988 to commemorate 150 years since the disaster, quite moving, such sad sad episode in our mining history. R.I.P. 26 little ones..
a few years ago i was into mountain biking ( pre heart attack) and used to bike up that way from monk bretton it's a very sobering moment when you first go and see and read the back story
I've been looking at this on my lunch whilst scouting out cycle routes, whereabouts is it? Google maps shows it on House Carr Lane.
Far too many memorials, to far too many of our ancestors who paid the ultimate price to make the rich mine-owners even richer
The Huskar disaster led to a public enquiry which resulted in an 1842 government report, “The Conditions and Treatment of the Children in the Mines and Factories.” Charles Dickens was so moved by the report he vowed he would strike a “sledge hammer blow” on behalf of the “poor man’s child.” Originally meant to be pamphlet, his project became a novel titled ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Dickens and others carried out their own research, staying at the Royal and going down mines around Barnsley.
Take the right hand exit off the TPT(heading west) There are signs which takes you to it, like Sparky says on the right & into the woods. Edit, yes it is on House Carr Lane.
