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Teams are just £1 each and 50% of the proceeds from each card completed will go directly to the ex-Miners association with the other 50% going to the entrant selecting the winning team. Description. We will contact you when this item is next available to order. A fishing match - organised by sole survivor, Brian - will then happen at The Cunneries in Ecclestone on March 18.
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A musical evening with the Haydock Male Voice Choir, will take place at St Thomas’ Church on March 17. Golborne, Lancashire. Your order is now being processed and we have sent a confirmation email to you at. By G. Hoyle, C.M.G.
Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times. On March 18 1979, an underground explosion ripped through the coal face at Golborne Colliery, sending a fireball shooting through its 1,800ft deep tunnels. The The Golborne Colliery Disaster: 40 Years Rememberance (Paperback), This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. We have a number of Members who are ex-miners themselves and after a request for help to mark the 40th Year commemoration of the disaster, ADW1 Branch Stewards will be asking Members to try their luck on Football Cards to help raise funds for the Golborne ex-Miners association. ( Log Out / Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Please select a reason for reporting this review: We have recently updated our Privacy Policy. By the late 1970s the Golborne Colliery was one of twenty two producing coal in the NCB Western area. Only one man, 20-year-old apprentice Brian Rawsthorne, survived the accident. HERE is a wonderful old picture which was taken at the Golborne Colliery Retirement Awards. Three men were killed instantly. Did you hear Handel has teamed up with Hinge and Bracket? “When you talk to the families of those who died, that’s when you start feeling it. “I worked on the underground locomotives,” the 70-year-old said.