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... Mystery disaster RETI RED teacher Miss Nora Hollins is looking for clues in her quest to identify the body of her grandfather, a victim of one of North Staffordshire's worst pit disasters. Seventy-seven miners died when a vast underground reservoir of ...

Published: Tuesday 14 February 1989
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PIT DISASTER REPORT URGES STRICT CHECKS controls on In areas of old disused workings are needed to another ..

... PIT DISASTER REPORT URGES STRICT CHECKS controls on In areas of old disused workings are needed to another Lofthouse Colliery disaster an official report Into accident today1 An investigation by Mr James Calder Chief Inspector of Mines confirms - seven ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1973
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2718 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

1- Shield Presented to Winners CHUdrenV Minnie Pit Disaster Hero Dead ' Britain's road' casualty figures for ..

... Minnie ' disaster which 155 lives were lost Roberts who then overman was the scene throughout the -rescue operations and was one of the principal witnesses at the inauiry His knowledge of the pit had also been called ' for during two other disasters at Podmore ...

Published: Monday 07 February 1955
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3469 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY 1972 SATURDAY TELEVISION Members of Talke Pits FC met Crown Hotel FC (Red Street) in a ..

... THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY 1972 SATURDAY TELEVISION Members of Talke Pits FC met Crown Hotel FC (Red Street) in a semi-final of the Chesterton and Audley OAP Association Charity Cup Their skipper Roy Young is kneeling centre BBCi 1215: Weatherman: weather ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1972
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2742 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CREWE Imports ‘threaten farming disaster’ FOOD IMPORTS must be reduced if Britain to avoid a farming disaster ..

... CREWE Imports ‘threaten farming disaster’ FOOD IMPORTS must be reduced if Britain to avoid a farming disaster Sir Henry Plumb President of the National Fanners said today Last year we spent £2000 million we could afford on importing the kind of food we ...

Published: Tuesday 16 September 1975
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3750 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

AREA PITS SHOWING A PROFIT ONLY SIX PITS Area of the headquarters are Stoke-on-Trent showing profit financial ..

... AREA PITS SHOWING A PROFIT ONLY SIX PITS Area of the headquarters are Stoke-on-Trent showing profit financial year three-quarters through Four of these are Taxi driver foils raiders A £1200 RAID a Stoke - on - Trent news- agents was foiled at the weekend ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1978
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 4079 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY OCTOBER 29 13 DEATH AND DISASTER FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE Legend of the ..

... AND DISASTER FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE Legend of the Phantom Hound TIDSGROVE'S strangest story concerns legend of the phantom hound— the ghost of black hunting which supposedly death or disaster has ranged for generations over from Mow Cop to Talke Pit disasters ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1954
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3056 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

PEACE in the pits and increased loans for potential customers have boosted coal sales for the North ..

... Davenport Arms 3 Capt Webb 4 FIXTURES Division I Cup— BP Chemicals v Biddulph Arms Grand Junction v Red Bull Fox Elworth v Cholmondeley Ark v College Division II— Red Rovers v Royal Scot Haslington Villa v Grapes Cup: Alsager TY v Sandpiper Shroppie Fly v Athletico ...

Published: Monday 22 November 1982
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3804 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

r-’JMTYi THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY AUGUST 28 1964 I Club cricket in the villages The Whitmore ..

... SURFACING Carried out by Specialist Large or Small Contracts undertaken Any Distance BLACK BITUMEN RED GRANITE VARIOUS FINISHES N P JOHNSON 10 LICHFIELD RD TALKE PITS Tel: Kidsgrove 2019 B HOWELL High-Class Painter and Decorator PAINTING and MAINTENANCE A SPECIALITY ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1964
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 2938 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

4 THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY AUGUST IS 1957 GOING HOME FROM STOKE Woman killed in plane disaster ..

... 4 THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY AUGUST IS 1957 GOING HOME FROM STOKE Woman killed in plane disaster One the 79 people killed when Canadian DC4 charter plane crashed near Quebec on Sunday was 60-years-old Mrs Annie Perrins who was returning ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1957
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 4596 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

1 THE STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 1985 Women down pits is history THE Shelton reader who ..

... STAFFORDSHIRE WEEKLY SENTINEL FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 1985 Women down pits is history THE Shelton reader who was aghast that a woman was one of the miners who perished in the USA colliery disaster added We in this country must never degenerate to those levels ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1985
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3488 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PIT ELECTRICIANS ARE CRITICISED I IN REPORT Eight (Jied through live switch 11-PLUS SELECTION DEFENDED ..

... Finding that died in pit explosion because electric switch was examined while still Mr G Hoyle Divisional Inspector of Mines writes his report to-day that colliery electricians should eradicate the type of conduct which led to disaster The four men killed ...

Published: Thursday 02 January 1958
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 3852 | Page: 7 | Tags: none