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Picture No 11007303
Date 19 February 1857
Description Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
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Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died, caused by a firedamp explosion.
Source Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 7 March 1857, page 199
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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