Entries for the tag ‘Oaks Colliery Disaster (12 December 1866)’
Series of explosions caused by firedamp, killing 361 miners and rescuers, worst mining disaster in England, worst mining disaster in the United Kingdom until the 1913 Senghenydd explosion in Wales. 
- 20 March 1847: Following 73 deaths at Oaks Colliery, the Rev William Thorp tells pit owners how to avoid explosions in the Barnsley Seam
- 14 December 1866: At quarter to five in the morning, the signal bell rings and a voice calls out from the depths of Oaks Colliery (Barnsley), tomb to 361 men and boys in the last day and a half
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