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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 29
2 The memorial to the Seaham Colliery Disaster in Christchurch graveyard 23
3 Families waiting for news at the pithead 19
4 Enquiries are made house to house to ascertain the men missing 21
5 Rescuers descend in the Kibble 14
6 Rescue teams waiting to go down 19
7 Thomas Stratton - Manager at Seaham Colliery 24
8 Michael Smiths water bottle with message to family scribed upon it 21
9 Headstone of Richard Cole who perished in the 1880 explosion 20
10 The internment of the bodies at Christchurch (The Graphic Sept 1880) 20
11 Crowds gathering around the pithead 20
12 The board written on by Richard Cole 24
13 Richard Cole - entombed with his marras - who left a message written in chalk on a board 26
 

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