Abbeystead waterworks disaster

Title

Abbeystead waterworks disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Oct 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:41

Description

Report on the Abbeystead disaster and aftermath as an interim Health and Safety Executive report is published and inquests on the victims open today. A water pump exploded during a visit by forty-two local residents on 23/05/84, killing sixteen and leaving twenty-eight others seriously injured. Includes interviews with survivors John Cobb and Pat Kaylor; Jim Burrow, NFU spokesman; local Vicar Lawrence Davies. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

John Cobb; Jim Burrow; Pat Kaylor; Lawrence Davies

Keywords

Deaths; Reports; Fires; Farmers; Industrial accidents; Lancashire; Inquests; Burns; Gas explosions; Water companies; Manmade disasters; Abbeystead; North West Water; Rural communities; Water pumps

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