Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire, where a coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person. Photograph showing a miner's home deprived of their father and breadwinner, bereaved widow with her seven young children to provided for
Picture No
10211616
Media ID
47409899
Size
5680px x 4017px
(3.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated London News', 19 November 1932, page 793
Date
October 1932
