Mining disasters in Lancashire
M ining disasters in Lancashire in which five or more people were killed occurred most frequently in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. Many more miners were killed in everyday accidents than in the major disasters that had a astrophic on mining communities, leaving widows and orphans without breadwinners. [1] Among the earliest deaths recorded in parish registers is that of Ffrancis Taylior, who ...