Network

Title

Network

Genre

Documentary

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:51:47

Description

Metro Radio Manchester presents The Hartley Colliery Disaster, a look back at the 1862 mining disaster at Hartley Colliery, Northumberland in which over 200 miners died.

Contributors

Metro Radio

Keywords

Deaths; Coal mining; Mining disasters; Coal miners; Coal mines; Mines; Hartley Colliery; Northumberland; Victorian period; Accidental death

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.