Bentley Colliery disaster

Title

Bentley Colliery disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:02:28

Description

Ian Rufus reports on the pit disaster at Bentley Colliery near Doncaster, when an underground train crashed killing seven miners. Includes interview with a miner’s wife waiting for news (not identified); report by Jim Greensmith at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. (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; Jim Greensmith

Keywords

Deaths; Coal mining; Underground trains; Coal industry; Coal miners; NCB; Trains; Coal mines; Coal mine accidents; Doncaster; Bentley Colliery; Doncaster Royal Infirmary

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