In 1838 on the 4th July there was the Huskar Pit disaster at Silkstone : These children died :- George Burkinshaw aged 10 years. James Burkinshaw aged 7 years. ( brothers ). Isaac Wright aged 12 years. Abraham Wright aged 8 years. ( brothers ). James Clarkson aged 16 years. Francis Hoyland aged 13 years. William Alick aged 12 years. Samuel Horne aged 10 years. Eli Hutchinson aged 9 years. George Garnett aged 9 years. John Simpson aged 9 years. George Lamb aged 8 years. William Womerfley aged 8 years. James Turton aged 10 years. John Gothard aged 8 years. The girls who died were:- Catherine Garnett aged 8 years. Hannah Webster aged 13 years. Elizabeth Carr aged 13 years. Anne Moss aged 9 years. Elizabeth Hollin aged 15 years. Ellen Parker aged 15 years. Hannah Taylor aged 17 years. Mary Sellars aged 10 years. Elizabeth Clarkson aged 11 years. Who was buried at the feet of her brother. Sarah Jukes aged 8 years. Sarah Newton aged 8 years.
Christian names have done the full circle It's like reading the register at the school my mam teachers at.
I remember Laura asking If we knew anything about child labour in the 19th Century , for a project they were doing at junior school . When I mentioned this disaster , she became very interested and downloaded a great deal of information from the internet . I took her to see the memorial and it was quite an emotional moment . To stand there , reading the names ( some of whom , as you say , were brothers and sisters )and noting their ages , whilst holding the hand of my then 10 year old daughter , was very moving .
It's funny you should say that but........... ....I found this on the net. I had heard of it before but don't know the details.</p> Imagine if this was a modern day disaster how we'd feel.</p> In October 1928, 400 <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9999">children[/b] singing songs marched out of a <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">cinema[/b] at Birkenhead while flames were threatening to envelope the whole theatre; and in December of the same year 700 <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9999">children[/b] escaped from a <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">cinema[/b] at Cleator Moor, Cumberland, when films caught fire in the operating box. In August last 400 <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9999">children[/b] marched out of a picture palace at Sheffield when films ignited, and in October several <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9999">children[/b] were injured in a stampede for the doors at a hall at Falkirk, where 200 <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff9999">children[/b] were witnessing a picture show when fire broke out in the operating box. There was a heavy death-roll in a <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a0ffff">cinema[/b] fire at Drumcollogher, County Limerick, in September 1926, 51 people being killed. The worst previous cinema disaster in this country occurred in January 1908 at Barnsley, where, owing to a panic, 16 children were killed and 32 injured. In 1911 three people were killed and 15 injured at Middlesborough; and at Chesterfield the same year five were killed.</p>