Author: Winstanley, Ian G.:
Title: Weep Mothers Weep: The Wood Pit Explosion Haydock 1878.
Description: Landy Publishing, 1989 Pbk, Good, contents clean and tight, pp80. "In one Lancashire colliery in 1878, over two hundred men and boys - many of them brothers, fathers and sons from the same families, lost their lives after a "firedamp" explosion that robbed these hewers of coal of the air that we breathe. This book tells the story of the day when death down the mine brought tragedy to families and altered the pattern of life in Haydock and Earlestown for ever."

Keywords: colliery Lancashire mining mine explosion firedamp death 1878 history coal mine tragedy families Earlestown Haydock life change 095076924X


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