Oaks Colliery Disaster

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  1. Marc

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    This day in 1866, 350 lives were lost. RIP x


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    Rip.
     
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    Shocking & distressing part of our local history.
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    Followed on 19th February 1857 by the Lundhill disaster with another 189 men and boys killed. Not a good period of local history :(
     
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    RIP

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    20 years before 73 men and boys lost their lives at the same mine.
     
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    Never heard of either, just been reading about them
     
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