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Category Archives: Disasters

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British Premonitions Bureau

Jan 13, 2020Eric CorbettDisasters, ParanormalNot on Wikipedia

Organisation set up by the psychiatrist John Barker in 1966 in the wake of the Aberfan disaster. Its aim was to collect premonitions from members of the public in the hope of being able to issue warnings about similar tragedies in the future.

Masbro’ boat disaster

Jun 2, 2019Daisy GraceDisasters, Yorkshire

Sixty-four people, mainly children, were drowned in the River Don in Masbrough, Yorkshire, on 5 July 1841 when the launch of a boat went wrong.

Bedford Colliery explosion

Oct 21, 2018Daisy GraceCoal mining, Disasters

Explosion of firedamp on Friday 13 August 1886 which caused the deaths of 38 miners at Bedford No. 2 Pit in Leigh, on the Lancashire Coalfield.

Huskar Pit Disaster

Sep 28, 2018Daisy GraceCoal mining, Disasters, Yorkshire

Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.

Mining disasters in Lancashire

Sep 13, 2018Eric CorbettCoal mining, Disasters, Lancashire

Mining disasters in Lancashire in which five or more people were killed occurred most frequently in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s.

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