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Crowd Outside Pit After The Disaster - Easington Colliery (easc0031)

Miners and Children
United Methodist Church Members

Photograph of a group of approximately one hundred people standing near the walls of houses, described as Group at Pit Head, 1951 (after Easington Disaster)

Crowd Outside Pit After The Disaster - Easington Colliery

Photograph of a group of approximately one hundred people standing near the walls of houses, described as Group at Pit Head, 1951 (after Easington Disaster)

Date: 1951


The small boy, with the black cap, to the left of the policeman is Maurice Jepson, my brother, and our grandad was the oldest miner to die in the disaster.

Comment added by Gordon Jepson on 18/03/2009 10:50:00

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