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At 14:40 on 16 February 1882 the Trimdon Grange colliery suffered a major explosion causing the deaths of 69 men and boys. The coroner (TW Snagge) reported to both houses of Parliament:
The explosion took place at 2.40 p.m. during the back shift. At that time there were sixty-four hewers, five deputies and twenty-five boys in the Harvey seam, a total of ninety-four persons. Every man and boy in the Narrow Board and the Headways district was killed.
For three days between 19 and 21 February 1882, the people of Trimdon Grange and Kelloe buried 74 people. Some were buried in mass graves. Others were laid to rest in a cemetery a few miles...
16. Feb. 2022 · By the Trimdon Grange explosion, Joseph, George and James are gone. TODAY is the 140th anniversary of one of the worst pit disasters in the Durham coalfield when 74 men and boys, including Mrs...
The Trimdon Colliery Disaster, a mine explosion, occurred on Thursday, February 16, 1882. Seventy-four people were killed. The below information draws on info from the Durham Chronicle and the census of 1881. Following the death lists are short lists of who identified certain bodies.
Poisonous gases created by the explosion killed some of the would-be rescuers from the adjoining Kelloe Colliery. 44 of the victims were buried in a mass grave at Old Trimdon, 26 were buried at Kelloe, 1 at Croxdale, 1 at Cassop and 2 at Shadforth.
16. Feb. 2012 · The 130th anniversary of the Trimdon Grange Colliery disaster, where 74 men and boys died in 1882, has been marked. The memorial took place at Trimdon's cemetery in County Durham where 44...
