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Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s...

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe Mine Minister's Message Sympathy With District Late on Saturday night Mr. Bell stated...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Deputy at Montagu

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Deputy at Montagu In  this exclusive "South Yorkshire Times" picture, W. Winder, the deputy, is seen in the...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremours

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe Earth Tremor Cuts Off District at Barnburgh Main Seventeen Men Entombed :...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Men Involved

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe - The Men Involved The Men who Died The Men who Survived

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot Leslie Thompson, one of the five men released from the...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The First Man Rescued

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Matthew Fairhurst, of Thurnscoe, the first man to get out, photographed at his home with his wife and...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Last Two

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 The Last Two End of Five and a Half Days' Search The last two men, G. F....

South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942

Long Service Gift – Winding Engineman’s Retirement

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Long Service Gift Cadeby Winding Engineman’s Retirement When Mr. John Cooke, of Mexborough, now retired, was presented with a...

Mines Secretary at Manvers Main – Distinguished Gathering

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 16 May 1942 Mines Secretary at Manvers Main Distinguished Gathering at Opening Of Canteen And Solarium Mr. D. R. Grenfell,...