Entries for the tag ‘Maddison, William Porter (1823-76)’
Chester-le-Street (Durham)-born mineworker, viewer at Wombwell Main colliery at the time of the 1857 Lundhill disaster, obituary in the press unseen. 
- 19 February 1857: William Maddison goes into a burning Lundhill Colliery, Barnsley, to look for survivors of the firedamp explosion that killed 189 of the 200 men and boys underground
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