Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910 Quotes

“It has been stated that the Wigan District of Lancashire, and the surrounding areas had three females for every male in the population right up to the turn of the twentieth century. Fine for the boys you might think, but this was a direct result of the men folk being wiped out in mining accidents, whether they were such as this, an explosion, or the multitude of individual accidents that took away life in the coal mines of the district. The Saw Mill Pit, with its dark and deathly past was finally abandoned in 1898. (24)”
― Jack Nadin, Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910

“Large crowds, estimated by some as several thousand gathered for news at the pit head. Orders were given that none of those who had perished should be brought to the surface until late at night, in the chance and hope that the assembled crowd would have diminished, thus avoiding the scenes of woe. At 10.17 pm the cage was wound slowly to the surface bringing up the first of the dead men and boys. The”
― Jack Nadin, Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910