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Memorial to Pretoria Pit Disaster, Westhoughton Cemetery

The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident on 21 December 1910, when an underground explosion occurred at the Hulton Colliery Bank Pit No. 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West England. A total of 344 men and boys lost their lives.

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Pretoria Pit disaster

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The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident on 21 December 1910, when an underground explosion occurred at the Hulton Colliery Bank Pit No. 3, known...

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The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident on 21 December 1910, when an underground explosion occurred at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, known...

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1910: The Pretoria Pit disaster in Westhoughton, Lancashire, 344 men and boys lost their lives in this explosion, which is the worst mining disaster on one...

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explosion of firedamp. The Pretoria Pit Disaster was the third worst in British mining history, after the 1866 Barnsley Oaks Disaster in Yorkshire, which killed...

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disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters...

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Mine rescue

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individual collieries in the use of the equipment and at the time of the Pretoria Pit Disaster in 1910 several hundred trained men participated in the operation...

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List of mining disasters in Lancashire

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trained rescuers were present at the Maypole and Pretoria Pit disasters. They also trained teams of men in pits throughout the coalfield. Boothstown Mines Rescue...

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1910

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Lords and support for the Irish Home Rule movement. December 21 – Pretoria Pit disaster: a coal mine explosion at the Hulton Colliery Company of Westhoughton...

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Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station

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Teams from the rescue station attended disasters at the Maypole Colliery in Abram in 1908 and the Pretoria Pit Disaster in 1910. The station closed in 1934...

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Hulton family of Hulton

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safety lamp caused an explosion in the Pretoria Pit killing 344 men and boys. It was the worst coal mining disaster in Lancashire, and the third worst in...

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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll

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The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom,...

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Westhoughton Town Hall

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August 1905. "The Pretoria Pit Disaster". Lancashire Online Parish Clerks. Retrieved 28 January 2021. "Pretoria Pit mining disaster remembered 100 years...

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1910 in the United Kingdom

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1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'. 21 December – The Pretoria Pit disaster: a massive underground explosion in a colliery belonging to the...

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December 1910

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2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-04-15. "The Pretoria Pit Disaster", Lancashire Online Parish; "Pretoria Pit Disaster December 21st 1910", Bolton.org.uk; "300...

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Westhoughton, Lancashire. In 1910 their son Edward was killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster and is commemorated on a plaque erected by the Bolton and District...

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Senghenydd colliery disaster

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Development of the pit coincided with the Boer War, and sectors of the underground workings were named after key places in the war, such as Pretoria, or the lifting...

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Wingates

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the churchyard contains many graves of the victims of the 1910 Pretoria Pit Disaster John Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist church, preached a...

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Listed buildings in Westhoughton

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19 June 2017 Historic England, "Memorial to those killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster approximately 127 metres north west of Church of St Bartholomew...

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South African Airways Flight 295

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1990). Report of the Board of Inquiry into the Helderberg Air Disaster (PDF) (Report). Pretoria: South African Civil Aviation Authority. ISBN 0-621-13030-3...

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Lancashire Coalfield

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Wigan and St Helens. The third worst mining disaster in the country was at Hulton Colliery Company's Pretoria Pit in 1910 when a faulty lamp caused an explosion...

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Second Boer War

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Afrikaans). Vol. IV. Pretoria: Die Staatsdrukker. Breytenbach, J. H. (1983). Die Britse Opmars tot in Pretoria [The British advance to Pretoria]. Die Geskiedenis...

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Jagersfontein

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1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact (PhD thesis). University of Pretoria. pp. xlv–lii. hdl:2263/26503. Free State Tourism.org Archived 2014-01-06...

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Over Hulton

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The Hulton Collieries Hulton Bank Colliery, otherwise known as the Pretoria Pit, was situated to the south of Hulton Park and just north of the Atherton...

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Hulton Colliery Company

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Colliery's Bank Pit Nos 1&2, the Klondike Pit, were sunk in 1897 south of Chequerbent Colliery and Bank Pit Nos 3&4 shafts, the Pretoria Pit, were sunk between...

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Underwater diving environment

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Safety Act 85 of 1993 – Regulations and Notices – Government Notice R41. Pretoria: Government Printer. Retrieved 3 November 2016 – via Southern African Legal...

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