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Coffins From The Pit Disaster - Easington Colliery (easc0001)

Interior Of A Colliery House
Thornley Road from the Club

Photograph of fifteen coffins lying in the mass grave of the victims of the colliery disaster at Easington Colliery in 1951; an official cap is lying on one of the coffins and a Union Jack with what appears to be a black circle in the middle of it on another

Coffins From The Pit Disaster - Easington Colliery

Photograph of fifteen coffins lying in the mass grave of the victims of the colliery disaster at Easington Colliery in 1951; an official cap is lying on one of the coffins and a Union Jack with what appears to be a black circle in the middle of it on another

Date: 1951


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