Creswell Colliery Disaster

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2044

Date Released

2 Oct 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Bevin Backs Plan to Form UN Army
2. 2Tommy Farr Comes Back
3. 3Isaacs Urges Workers Beware Red Menace (Exclusive)
4. 4First Pictures: Marines Storm Last Defences, Take Seoul
5. 5C of I Trailer: "4d Minimum Foreign Letter Postage"
6. *Creswell Colliery Disaster

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

Heart-rending scenes at pithead. Miners fill sandbags for sealing off workings where eighty men died in fire.

Local distribution only

Leeds release only

Keywords

Mining; Accidents and disasters

Library number

18964

Length of story (in feet)

53

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Notes

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