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... the notorious Redding Pit disaster 63 years ago, has died in Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary. He was Mr Lawrence Thomson (94) who lived at 38 Princes Street, California. Mr Thomson had been a miner all his days and worked in various pits in the area ...

Published: Friday 18 April 1986
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Sadly missed

... peacefully, on April 8, 1986, Lawrence, aged 95 years, of 38 Princess Street, California, and last survivor of the Redding Pit disaster of 1923. — Inserted by all the family. TONNER. — At Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, on March 31, 1986, Michael, aged ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1986
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Kelty Pit Disaster Fund

... Kelty Pit Disaster Fund A de{)artmemal subseription at Burntisland Shipyard has realised the sum of £llB 0/3 for the dependents of miners killeq in the Lindsay Pit disaster, *he detached list is appended:— Piaters- “. £l3 18 0 Staff 1017 9 Burners’ ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1958
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Twenty-nine killed in another German pit explosion

... second pit disaster 'in West Germany in just over a Wadsworth w I fmonth. In the first., at Saar*%* Ibruecken. about 300 men were .- Fashions in footwear was the Killed In an explosion in the tétlebof a tal}c gllive‘;i by Cénm. H. H. Luisenthal Pit, rabtree ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1962
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ALY ACCORD 151 Govt inquiry into cadet bus disaster Red jet is first EVERYWHERE families are wild about ..

... ALY ACCORD 151 Govt inquiry into cadet bus disaster Red jet is first EVERYWHERE families are wild about WONDERUL CHICKEN NOODLE HEY ESCAPED SOUP ’he’ oodles of 4 big helpings 1- In the shops now Come get BHINCINGUP ATHER terror vegeta-every BY GOLLY- ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Taxpayers may foot hill for mine threat LOTHIAN families will luted groundwater ~Government put mon- nearby ..

... ~Government put mon- nearby disused pits like be left to pick up the from abandoned ey into ensuring that Bilston Glen and Newbill for an environmen- mines. Lothian and the many tongrange. Red water is tal disaster - unless the “British Coal came otherareas ...

Published: Tuesday 21 February 1995
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 204 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

p . WHEN disaster struck at accident will affect the mining com_ munity and the families involved for gfl:g{:l ..

... lived, * ’ if only to have enjoyed some of the killed in the 1931 Bentley better times that miners have known pit explosion. since that awful disaster,” wrote Mary The accident claimed 45 lives and has t 0 the Yorkshire Evening Post. ; left a deep scar in ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1993
Newspaper: Sleaford Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 281 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Crowds seek news of missing relatives after hurricane disaster – Box of matches in tin of pears

... Crowds seek news of missing relatives after hurricane disaster - Box of matches in tin of pears THE frequency with which consumers find foreign bodies in food is called “ a disturbing feature of modern food manufacture by the Association of Public Health ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1965
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ready irst pit victim found Star Locke in lead— John Panton 10 behind Russel men Ruselite nd of rmw for

... ready irst pit victim found Star Locke in lead— John Panton 10 behind Russel men Ruselite nd of rmw for total second place AU four members of tbe British in 2-1 Will 5 PALE AL 5-2 f Supporters’ corner Labour 'CUT' WARNINGS BY RADIO Masonic 73a perta Wyltte ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1613 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Markham safety criticised

... miners' leader hit out over safety checks at an inquest today on the 18 who died in the Markham Colliery disaster. “The accident showed that the pit cage winding mechanism at Markham deft a lot to be desired.” said Mr Peter Heathfield, Derbyshire secretary ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

“Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft’ By Michael Taylor (Hamlyn £9.95) is a magnificently illustrated ..

... history and special features of the aircraft’s design. “The Red Arrows” by Gillian and Richard Cooke (Planet: W. H. Allen £14.95) reveals in words and colour pictures the expertise of the entire Red Arrows squadron — not only the daring pilots but also those ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1988
Newspaper: Deeside Piper
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

.S UPHEAVALS

... undernotes. around explosion which killed L —— 39 miners at an adjoining pit two vears ago. Salesman | Springhill, in the hills of ANortl;-we;;_t Ntova Sclg;i{:. gafl a major disaster in whic l)e(‘ omes a |took 125 lives. Underground lixlpheav:;)ls—the minerlst ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1958
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 3 | Tags: none