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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 249
2 The memorial to the Seaham Colliery Disaster in Christchurch graveyard 232
3 Families waiting for news at the pithead 213
4 Enquiries are made house to house to ascertain the men missing 223
5 Rescuers descend in the Kibble 226
6 Rescue teams waiting to go down 214
7 Thomas Stratton - Manager at Seaham Colliery 257
8 Michael Smiths water bottle with message to family scribed upon it 209
9 Headstone of Richard Cole who perished in the 1880 explosion 209
10 The internment of the bodies at Christchurch (The Graphic Sept 1880) 211
11 Crowds gathering around the pithead 195
12 The board written on by Richard Cole 230
13 Richard Cole - entombed with his marras - who left a message written in chalk on a board 209
 

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