Miners in the painfully narrow passage on the descent to the
The painful passage of a narrow gallery, the descent into the pits at the Courrieres mines. The colliery disaster at Courrieres mines, 1906, in the Pas de Calais. An explosion in one of the three pits resulted in a unprecedented death toll of 1150 men
Picture No
10215850
Media ID
46351384
Size
5500px x 4433px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by L Sabarttier in The Illustrated London News. 17th March 1906, page 376
Date
1906
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