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Seaham Colliery Explosion 1880

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1 View of Seaham Harbour at the time of the 1880 Seaham Colliery Disaster 26
2 The memorial to the Seaham Colliery Disaster in Christchurch graveyard 21
3 Families waiting for news at the pithead 16
4 Enquiries are made house to house to ascertain the men missing 18
5 Rescuers descend in the Kibble 12
6 Rescue teams waiting to go down 17
7 Thomas Stratton - Manager at Seaham Colliery 21
8 Michael Smiths water bottle with message to family scribed upon it 18
9 Headstone of Richard Cole who perished in the 1880 explosion 18
10 The internment of the bodies at Christchurch (The Graphic Sept 1880) 15
11 Crowds gathering around the pithead 17
12 The board written on by Richard Cole 19
13 Richard Cole - entombed with his marras - who left a message written in chalk on a board 23
 

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