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Home Photograph archive - Old and modern images of Seaham Seaham Colliery Explosion 1880

Seaham Colliery Explosion 1880

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1 View of Seaham Harbour at the time of the 1880 Seaham Colliery Disaster 1227
2 The memorial to the Seaham Colliery Disaster in Christchurch graveyard 1171
3 Families waiting for news at the pithead 1110
4 Enquiries are made house to house to ascertain the men missing 1179
5 Rescuers descend in the Kibble 1159
6 Rescue teams waiting to go down 1112
7 Thomas Stratton - Manager at Seaham Colliery 1231
8 Michael Smiths water bottle with message to family scribed upon it 1134
9 Headstone of Richard Cole who perished in the 1880 explosion 1087
10 The internment of the bodies at Christchurch (The Graphic Sept 1880) 1149
11 Crowds gathering around the pithead 1056
12 The board written on by Richard Cole 1135
13 Richard Cole - entombed with his marras - who left a message written in chalk on a board 1127
 

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