Bentley Colliery disaster
- Title
- Bentley Colliery disaster
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 21 Nov 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:02:42
- Description
- Ian Rufus reports on the pit disaster at Bentley Colliery near Doncaster, when an underground train crashed killing seven miners. Speaking are: Dave Ketteridge, NCB; miner in rescue team (not identified). (The dead were later named as: J Mitchell, R Aitcheson, K Green, G Henderson, M E Hickman, D. Box, D R Hall).
- Contributors
- Ian Rufus; Dave Ketteridge
- Keywords
- Deaths; Trade unions; Coal mining; Underground trains; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; NCB; Trains; Coal mines; Rescue work; Coal mine accidents; Search and rescue operations; Doncaster; Bentley Colliery
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