The West Stanley Pit disasters refers to two explosions at the West Stanley colliery (variously known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit). West Stanley colliery...

show Stanley as "Standley". The 1909 West Stanley Pit Disaster, one of the worst in the history of British coal mining, occurred at West Stanley Colliery...

One of the West Stanley Pit disasters happened in 1882. The Victoria Hall disaster happened in 1883. One of the West Stanley Pit disasters happened in...

505°W / 53.715; -1.505 The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident in Lofthouse, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on Wednesday 21 March...

grandfather Frank, an inspector, heroically saved lives in the West Stanley Pit disaster. His father Joe and uncle Frank were Newcastle United supporters...

The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom,...

out by two Latvian anarchists. 16 February – West Stanley Pit Disaster, a coal mining disaster in Stanley, County Durham, in which more than 160 miners...

north of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The district is centred on the A61 Leeds Road south of Lofthouse. It grew up as a pit village and was only...

lives of the mining communities in and around Stanley in north-east Durham and to commemorate mining disasters.: 144–145  Tommy Armstrong was born in Wood...

were due to roof falls. List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Coal mine disasters List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland "Holditch Colliery"...

Rosherville Gardens was a 19th-century pleasure garden in a disused chalk pit in Northfleet, Kent, England. After being laid out in 1837, it stood for...

house the workforce for the pit as there was little other employment available locally. Although no "disasters", (i.e. pit accidents resulting in five...

EXPLAINED". August 4, 2022. "Woodstock '99 one of the greatest garbage disasters of all time". TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum | #1 CDL Truck Driver...

169-foot (356 m) shaft was sunk to Arley Mine. The pit closed in 1963. In September 1913 the first pit head baths in the country were opened at Gibfield...

Plodder and Arley seams. Bank Pit No 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, was the site of one Britain's worst coal-mining disasters when on 21 December 1910, 344...

Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA: PIT, ICAO: KPIT, FAA LID: PIT) — originally Greater Pittsburgh Airport and later Greater Pittsburgh International...

April 26, 1942, killed 1,549 miners. As well as disasters directly affecting mines, there have been disasters attributable to the impact of mining on the...

(1886). The largest mining disaster in the Durham Coalfield in England was at West Stanley Colliery, known locally as "The Burns Pit", when 168 men and boys...

been drift mines or adits where coal seams outcropped or by shallow bell pits where coal was close to the surface. Shafts lined with tree trunks and branches...

the pit bottoms, the main roadways extended 380 yards (350 m) to the north, where the West Level branched off and ran for 640 yards (590 m) west to the...

North West campaign of 1885 informed North-West Rebellion encyclopedia entries in the Canadian Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica. Stanley focused...

1942, which killed 1,549 miners. As well as disasters directly affecting mines, there have been disasters attributable to the impact of mining on the...

Disaster Reduction as part of its program to prevent losses due to disasters, disasters would go on to cause a record-breaking US$608 billion worth of damage—more...

out Sydney Football Stadium. The success of the club's first season was pitted on first-time coach Popovic who had built the team from its foundations...

Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them, Edison: Castle Books, 2005 p. 277 Perry, James Arrogant Armies Great Military Disasters and the Generals...

Bath. Duckers, Peter, British Orders and Decorations, pp. 21–24. Martin, Stanley, The Order of Merit, p. 31. "No. 30250". The London Gazette (2nd supplement)...

brick pit lake. In July 2007, a development group called Kirrawee Centre Pty Ltd, with directors including architect, George Revay, and brothers Stanley and...

original on January 5, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2006. "SOS! Canadian Disasters". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Library and Archives Canada. 2006. Archived...

Publishing. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-85936-013-2. OCLC 54881773. "The Moorfield Pit Disaster". 2000. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. Retrieved 19 March...

dangerous state with the full knowledge thereof, and not lowering the waste pit, have been guilty of great and culpable negligence". On Whit Monday, 29 May...