I'm researching my Disney family history and many of my ancestors were miners in the Heanor, Langley Mill, Ilkeston, West Hallam and Stanley areas from c 1890 - 1920. I have found that 2 Disneys were involved in an accident at the Manner Pit near Ilkeston in 1905, 3 men were killed in an explosion.

Would love to know more about the incident and obtain some photos I could add to my family history.
Plus contact with anyone who knew any Disneys in the area.

Through my relative in Ilkeston I have copies from the Ilkeston Pioneer 1905 22nd Sept about the accident which resulted in three deaths. Ten injured men were taken to Ilkeston hospital and three died of their burns and injuries.

2nd March 1906 has details of a presentation to five men who helped in the rescue, one was my Samuel Disney a stallman at Manners pit who was given an engraved silver watch.
Another recipient was Joseph Henshaw a loader.Do you think he is related to the Joseph on your site and Gary Henshaw who

My paternal grandfather, another Joseph Henshaw, would have been at work as a hewer at Woodside Colliery in the Kilburn seam in 1905, where he spent all his underground working life.  Reckoned to be the best house-coal in the country, this Shipley Kilburn coal fuelled the fireplaces at Balmoral, the downside being that it ruined my grandfather's (and probably many others') respiratory health, and he died in the early 1940s, aged 61 or thereabouts, after being forced to finish his working life early as a dayman through his work-related illness.

As Woodside and Manners were at that time separate privately-owned entities,it is unlikely he ever worked at the latter, even temporarily.