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| Picture No | 10215850 |
| Date | 1906 |
| Description | Miners in the painfully narrow passage on the descent to the |
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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.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 17th March 1906, p376. mid left. By L. Sabarttier. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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