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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

AMAZING ROW ATA crazy van IT’S GREAT UN THE eternal triangle almost becomes a four-sided one In a new play

... yesterday for a guarantee that all the money in the Auchengeich Colliery disaster fund would be given to dependants He is Bailie John Maxwell a survivor of the 1923 Redding pit disaster at PolmonL ‘ Good people And he told alkirk Town Council that he supported ...

Published: Tuesday 29 September 1959
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NAVYS MUTINY SCARED THEM from ATER CHEER HOW IT BEGAN SINCE 1939 STOCKWELL CORNER GLASGOW where TRONGATE ..

... great ships stole away one by one until all that remained were a few drifters scheduled to sail next day To-morrow: The Redding pit disaster Mr Baldwin the Tory leader Several eminent Socialists went over with the Premier and the Labour Party which had been ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1955
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1999 | Page: 9 | 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

Useless Eustace liTHE PIT UND Klh the Auchengelch PH Disaster Mi Hi — und at a concert the Empire Theatre

... Useless Eustace liTHE PIT UND Klh the Auchengelch PH Disaster Mi Hi — und at a concert the Empire Theatre ' Voted for his licence — — LAP — SOLVE YOUR CLEANING PROBLEMSAW iW HIS HEART CURE IDEA o ui OLD INSTRUCTIONS and standing (or rather at THAT price ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1959
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1080 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DISASTER PIT LOODED LL HOPE GONE Wives collapse news before the official An answer DEATH-ROLL HITS Trip to death at

... on a Journey to death Scotland's worst pit disaster of the century began as 47 laughing and joking miners left the early morning sunshine SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER No 19933 woman from the scene of the disaster BELOW— A mother hopes but the strain ia ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1959
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 1 | 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

DAILY RECORD 28 0CU3 ON SCOTLANll’S PRIVATE ENTERPRISE PITS How miners red Sly get down By JAMES BARCLAY TAM ..

... DAILY RECORD 28 0CU3 ON SCOTLANll’S PRIVATE ENTERPRISE PITS How miners red Sly get down By JAMES BARCLAY TAM DALYELL the Helping members more important who 1 d subsequently be on this important Indeed the abians appear to have contacted their network ...

Published: Thursday 28 August 1969
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 984 | Page: 10 | 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