Photograph archive - Old and modern images of Seaham The Churches of Seaham Christchurch and the Miner's Garden of Remembrance
Christchurch was built by Lady Frances Ann Vane in memory of her husband the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. It was built opposite the entrance to Seaham Colliery where an explosion in the Hutton and Maudlin seam in 1880 killed 164 men and boys. The photograph shows the memorial erected in memory of the men and boys who died in the explosion. To the right, just out of view, is another memorial to the 26 men and boys who also died in an explosion in 1871.
This photograph by John Foreman is reproduced here with the kind permission of his wife Agnes Foreman.
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