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Plum WOMEN LIBERALS’ REMEDY” FOR PIT DISASTERS

... Plum WOMEN LIBERALS’ REMEDY” FOR PIT DISASTERS IJnoff ICIA L strikes, Communism, trade union tyranny,” housing delays and pit tragedies were among the subjects discussed at the council meeting of the Women’s Liberal Federation at Scarborough yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 2300 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PIT ON TEST

... before the Creswell pit disaster, many men would have been able to reach safety. The life saver, which is carried in a tin container with a metal loop to enable it to be attached to the miner’s belt, weighs only IJlb. with the container. It was demonstrated ...

Published: Monday 09 March 1953
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Pit mishap

... Pit mishap Mr. Churchill said there was a significant paragraph in the report which stated that in important cases a more practical means of public ownership might be a statutory board of control on the lines of the late Iron and Steel Board He went on: ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1056 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST MONDAY FEBRUARY 1955 FIREPROOF BELTING TO BE USED IN ALL PITS 1950 Creswell ..

... POST MONDAY FEBRUARY 1955 FIREPROOF BELTING TO BE USED IN ALL PITS 1950 Creswell Disaster Recalled CONVEYOR belting which is believed to have contributed to the 1950 Creswell pit disaster through friction and overheating has now been rendered fire-resistant ...

Published: Monday 28 February 1955
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 3275 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE NOTTINGHAM THURSDAY AUGUST FORTY-ONE MINERS KILLED IN GERMAN PIT DISASTER Kirkby Wedding ' ::laBp:''-:''' : ..

... THE NOTTINGHAM THURSDAY AUGUST FORTY-ONE MINERS KILLED IN GERMAN PIT DISASTER Kirkby Wedding ' ::laBp:''-:''' :- Mr Christopher Hoffis master at Gr School Sassex Miss of 113 Victoria - road Kirkby - -Asbfieid who married St Wilfrid's Church Kirkby ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1955
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 3087 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Growing Flood Disaster in America

... Growing Flood Disaster in America 100,000 Now Reported Homeless - Flood wator* of ftho Missouri and . Mississippi Rivers to-day continue to pour over cities and rich farmlands, driving nearly 100,000 people from their hemes to higher land. The Missouri ...

Published: Tuesday 15 April 1952
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1414 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NO HOPE FOR 80 MEN IN CRESWELL PIT FIRE

... managing director of the Bolsover Colliery Co., which owned the pit before nationalisation. The only comparable disaster in the Notts, and Derbyshire coalfield occurred at the Markham Pit, Duckmanton, near Chesterfield, May, 1938. when 79 men lost their ...

Published: Tuesday 26 September 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2363 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEPUTIES’ DISPUTE HOLIDAYS HIT PITS to annual holidays the number of pits which will not be working tomorrow in ..

... result in the loss of 8500 tons coal pits in area the only colliery for NOTTINGHAM AREA 12 pits the No 3 area on tomorrow Thoresby Clipstone Sherwood because of the deputies dispute Warsop will the colliery in area Only pit affected by dispute No area tomorrow ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1956
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening News
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 3630 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MINERS PAY HOMAGE TO PIT VICTIMS 19 Funerals at Creswell TO-DAY, six months after the whole country was first ..

... MINERS PAY HOMAGE TO PIT VICTIMS 19 Funerals at Creswell TO-DAY, six months after the whole country was first shocked and grieved at the terrible toll inflicted by Creswell Colliery disaster, in which 80 men were killed, the little mining community witnessed ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1951
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 218 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

--‘v '( ? -- THE POST THURSDAY 27 1954 DISTURBANCE US Carrier Disaster Investigation A - naval ' board of

... --‘v '( ? -- THE POST THURSDAY 27 1954 DISTURBANCE US Carrier Disaster Investigation A - naval ' board of inquiry ii baainnina ' at fo-day9 the- explosion aboard aircraft carrier Bennington in which 91 men were killed 201 injured The explosion followed ...

Published: Thursday 27 May 1954
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 4218 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE NOTTINGHAM GUARDIAN TUESDAY OCTOBER 3T 1950 GRAVEL PIT DROWNING TRAGEDY A verdict that death was due to ..

... Netherfield who fell into a water-filled gravel pit near his home on Friday morning Patrick Andrew Bernard Hopkinson of 37 L NW -terrace six-car-oid of Dennis they jumping over heaps of sand edge of gravel pit when Dennis across one towards waier and into ...

Published: Tuesday 31 October 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Guardian
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 5589 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NOTTINGHAM GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 195 NOTICE OF HOPE ABANDONED 77 ENTOMBED IN CRESWELL PIT Three ..

... colliery He formerly managing director of Bolsover Colliery Co which owned pit before nationalisation The only comparable disaster in the Motts and Derbyshire coalfield occurred Markham Pit Duckmanton near Chesterfield in May 1938 when 79 lost their lives in ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Guardian
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 4022 | Page: 2 | Tags: none