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Commemorative Stone - Easington Colliery (easc0138)

Pumping Station
Gilbert Ridley Band

Photograph of a plaque set into a stone erected in memory of the eighty one miners who died in an explosion at Easington Colliery on 29 May 1951 and in memory of the two miners who died in attempting to rescue the victims; the names of the individual miners are not listed

Commemorative Stone - Easington Colliery

Photograph of a plaque set into a stone erected in memory of the eighty one miners who died in an explosion at Easington Colliery on 29 May 1951 and in memory of the two miners who died in attempting to rescue the victims; the names of the individual miners are not listed

Date: 1951


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