Mine Fire at the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, Birmingham
Mine Fire at the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, Birmingham on 4th March, 1908. The Barnsley Detachment Tankersley Brigade Rescue Party (complete with Breathing apparatus and a caged canary to act as a warning of poisonous gas), the Colliery, the construction of an air passage and the men entombed are all pictured in this remarkable multi-image postcard commemorating the disaster and the victims
Picture No
12586872
Media ID
45914829
Size
5134px x 3268px
(2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Postcard published by W. Gothard, 6 Eldon Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Date
1908
