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One Year of Hell: The heart-breaking true story of the 1880 Seaham Colliery Coal Mining Disaster

One Year of Hell: The heart-breaking true story of the 1880 Seaham Colliery Coal Mining Disaster

          
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About the Book

This widely acclaimed book of a true story in the Durham Coalfields will break your heart.

At 10.00pm on a tranquil Tuesday evening 231 men and boys went down the mine to begin their shift. Four hours later at 2.20am on Wednesday 8th September 1880 a fiery explosion ripped through the Hutton and Maudlin seam destroying everything in its path. Only 67 survivors were brought out of the pit.

"One Year of Hell" is a riveting account of the stories of the victims, survivors, widows and orphans and the trauma and heartache experienced in the pit village of Seaham Colliery.

The author spent much of his childhood living in the pit village and coal mining community of Seaham Colliery. The pit yard at the bottom of the street was his playground during the day and at night he fell asleep with the sounds of the busy colliery ringing in his ears. He knew about the tragic 1880 Seaham Colliery Disaster that killed 164 men and boys - everyone did - but during the research for this book he was totally unprepared to learn about the unbearable pain and heartache suffered by the pit community.

This book chronicles the grief and hardship of the widows and children of the victims that perished in the horrific explosion. It tells of the miners who refused to work whilst the bodies of their comrades were entombed in the Maudlin seam and who went on strike to uphold that long established principle followed by Durham coalminers. Some miners were sent to Durham jail for intimidation of strike-breakers in the colliery village and some; the "sacrificed men," were denied re-employment by the coal owner and had no option but to emigrate and make a new life in America.

It was exactly one year to the day after the explosion that the last body was recovered from the mine. Descendants of the miners killed in the explosion will learn for the first time of the terror and horrific injuries caused by the fiery blast that ripped through the Hutton and Maudlin seams. This is the story of "One Year of Hell" in the history of Seaham.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - The sinking of Seaton and Seaham Collieries
Chapter 2 - Why the "Hell-Fire" pit
Chapter 3 - The poor trapper boy - The 1852 explosion
Chapter 4 - Two pits become one
Chapter 5 - The elusive 1864 explosion
Chapter 6 - The curse of the curve - The 1871 explosion
Chapter 7 - The daily work at Seaham Colliery
Chapter 8 - One year of hell - The 1880 explosion
Chapter 9 - The loss of life is much greater than first thought
Chapter 10 - The first inquest is opened
Chapter 11 - The burials begin
Chapter 12 - The winner of the Queen's gold cup is buried
Chapter 13 - The adjourned first inquest is re-opened
Chapter 14 - Exploration continues into No. 1 pit
Chapter 15 - Messages from the dead
Chapter 16 - The Relief Funds
Chapter 17 - Explorers find more messages from the dead
Chapter 18 - The Maudlin seam is on fire
Chapter 19 - The adjourned first inquest resumes
Chapter 20 - The strike begins
Chapter 21 - The adjourned first inquest resumes again
Chapter 22 - The widows appeal to the Relief Committee
Chapter 23 - The strike is causing real deprivation
Chapter 24 - Striking miners assault blacklegs
Chapter 25 - Five striking miners charged with assault
Chapter 26 - Mass meeting of miners from other pits
Chapter 27 - The strike is resolved
Chapter 28 - The fate of the "sacrificed men"
Chapter 29 - The verdict of the inquest is declared
Chapter 30 - The Maudlin seam is re-opened
Chapter 31 - The bodies of the missing men are found
Chapter 32 - The final inquest
Chapter 33 - The Durham Miners Association
Chapter 34 - One Year of Hell
Chapter 35 - In Memoriam
Pit Terminology & Glossary
Appendix 1 - The N&D Miners Permanent Relief Fund
Appendix 2 - Details of the bodies recovered and interred
Bibliography and References
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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781916017405
  • Publisher: Fred Cooper
  • Publisher Imprint: Fred Cooper
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 554 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1916017401
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 236
  • Sub Title: The heart-breaking true story of the 1880 Seaham Colliery Coal Mining Disaster
  • Width: 150 mm


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