Newbottle Colliery Explosion – Fencehouses – 1832

NEWBOTTLE. Fencehouses, Durham. 15th. June, 1832.

An explosion was reported to have taken place in which 70 lives were lost.

REFERENCES
Select Committee on Accidents in Coal Mines 1852-3.

Information supplied by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre.