The Northern Echo | Coal Mining

Memorial unveiled for dead miners

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:00:00 +0100

HUNDREDS of people gathered for a service yesterday to remember the men who died in a mining disaster 60 years ago.

Community marks 60th anniversary of tragedy

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:00:00 +0100

A NORTH-EAST community will gather today to remember those who died in a mining disaster 60 years ago.

Miners among guests at museum day

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:57 +0100

MINERS past and present paraded though a museum to celebrate the opening of its latest attraction.

Apple tree memorial to last pit pony

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:01:03 +0000

AN apple tree has been planted in memory of the North- East’s last working pit pony.

Schoolchildren relive tragic mining explosion

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:23:15 +0000

PUPILS have dressed in traditional mining clothes to help them understand one of the North-East’s worst pit disasters.

Mine history to go on show after grant

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:58 +0000

MORE than 100 pieces of mining history will go on public display for the first time, thanks to a charitable grant.

Centenary tribute to 168 workers who died in mine

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:47:46 +0000

CHURCH bells will toll 168 times to mark the 100th anniversary of one of region’s worst coal mining disasters.

To hell and back

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:07:29 +0100

Fifty seven years ago today, more than 80 men and boys were killed in an explosion at Easington Colliery. Tommy Houghton, now 93, the last surviving member of the Rescue Brigade, talks, for the first time, to Marjorie McIntyre about what he saw that day.

The miners who never came home

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:06 +0100

It was the eerie sound every mining community dreaded. The alarm which signalled an accident underground and summoned miners from their homes to join rescue teams.

Black day for village

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:32:13 +0100

Residents were first alerted to the tragedy by a muffled bang followed by a loud roar from Burns Pit, West Stanley, at 3.45pm on February 16, 1909.