Pretoria Pit 1910 explosion

[gemmac]

As far as I am aware of I do not have an ancestor in this pit dissaster that happened in Lancashire with a loss of 344 men and boys.

It is well worth a read.

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Westhoughton/Pretoria/index.html

Gemmac

[andrewalston]

I'd already found that four of my relatives died there. A huge disaster, which was still talked about when my mother was a child a quarter of a century later.