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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 1048
2 The memorial to the Seaham Colliery Disaster in Christchurch graveyard 1009
3 Families waiting for news at the pithead 954
4 Enquiries are made house to house to ascertain the men missing 1026
5 Rescuers descend in the Kibble 984
6 Rescue teams waiting to go down 954
7 Thomas Stratton - Manager at Seaham Colliery 1072
8 Michael Smiths water bottle with message to family scribed upon it 959
9 Headstone of Richard Cole who perished in the 1880 explosion 935
10 The internment of the bodies at Christchurch (The Graphic Sept 1880) 986
11 Crowds gathering around the pithead 890
12 The board written on by Richard Cole 982
13 Richard Cole - entombed with his marras - who left a message written in chalk on a board 965
 

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