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G'day Mines2 You ask for information on your web-site. I would like you to know that there was, is?, a Memorial in Longton Cemetary, Stoke-on-Trent, to a Loss of 106 Lives in the Early 20th Century, I used to pass it on my way to school in the early 1950's. No mention was made of this, in your list of Mining Disasters. It was back in the 50's so the number Killed just grew in time! During that time up until 1957 we lived next door to a man, he had retired by that time, I worked at the Florence Colliery as a fitter in the Coal Preparation Plant for 20 months, to get heavy engineering experience before getting a job as a Marine Engineer with Blue Funnel. My grandfather and later my father had worked there before the War. As a matter of interest the Mine would have been named Florence, as was the Local area after the Duke of Sutherland's wife. I was born and grew up in Cromartie St. (no Y !), all the other streets had Scottish names, and the Local Pub was called the Dunrobin, (after the Duke of Sutherland's Castle).So monied Scots came south of the border, just like all the English you here about taking over Scottish Communities.
All I can find is the disaster of 16th October 1889 when 64 died, it was an explosion, firedamp propagated by coal dust, ignition caused by spontaneous combustion. The monument is at:- mossfield7.htm#mem The other disaster was on 21st March 1940 there was another disaster in which 11 died, once again an explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by spontaneous combustion but I can not find another memorial. You could try the Durham Mining Museum, Memorials See also Darren Haines,
Ex Florence Colliery Worker. |
