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South Yorkshire Mining Disasters: Volume I (ePub)

The Nineteenth Century

P&S History > British History > Victorian History P&S History > By Century > 19th Century P&S History > Social History > Mining & Miners World History > UK & Ireland > England > Yorkshire & Humberside > Barnsley

By Brian Elliott
Imprint: Wharncliffe Books
Series: Mining Heritage
File Size: 18.4 MB (.epub)
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 50 black and white
ISBN: 9781783036967
Published: 31st October 2006

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In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Huskar pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britain's worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

Essential reading and a valuable resource for research, for anyone whose ancestors worked in the coal mining industry or researching the history of South Yorkshire.

Village Publications (Bradway Bugle)
 Brian Elliott

About Brian Elliott

Brian Elliott is a well-known local historian and editor who has written widely about the British coalmining history. Among his recent books on the subject are Barnsley Pits and Pitmen, Yorkshire Miners, Yorkshire Mining Veterans, The Miners' Strike Day by Day, South Yorkshire Mining Disasters (2 vols), Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors and in Pen and Sword's Images of the Past series, Coalminers.

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