• Huskar Pit Disater Memorial 1. ... NB this map is of Sillkstone Village - a map of the walk which includes the memorial can be downloaded from the website above.
  • The restoration of the memorial to those who lost their lives in the Pretoria Pit disaster is underway.
  • The Memorial Garden at the site of the Former Hester Pit of Hartley Colliery, in New Hartley, was opened on the 18th January 1976 by Joe Gormley, then...
  • Burns, the pit was taken over by the South Derwent Company, owner of West Shield Row Colliery and another at Annfield Plain.
  • Now a memorial has been unveiled close to where the pit stood, which includes - for the first time - the names of all those who lost their lives.
  • AIM. To create a physical Memorial to the legacy of the Bradford Pit - embedded within the location that it is remembering.
  • ...memorial serves as a fitting tribute to the over fifty-five men who lost their lives working in the pit; notes the historical significance of Cardowan Pit for the trade...
  • A sculptural memorial made in Corten steel has been installed on the former site of the Bradford Pit Colliery at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
  • From what I can glean online, the memorial was unveiled in 1920 to commemorate the men from the nearby Taylor Pit and John Pit collieries who were killed in...
  • A new memorial to the miners and local community has recently been erected in Bradford, Manchester. The pit was in operation for nearly two centuries until it...