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Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremour

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

Back to Work – Cortonwood in Full Production

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 16 May 1942 Back to Work Cortonwood in Full Production As reported in our last issue the strike at Cortonwood...

Cortonwood Strike – Trouble Over Price List

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 09 May 1942 Cortonwood Strike Trouble Over Price List Eighteen hundred employees of Cortonwood Colliery, Brampton, Wombwell, have been idle...

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,...

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...