"Prepare to Meet Thy God"
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"Prepare to Meet Thy God"
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 21 May 2015
The Lundhill Explosion Memorial in Darfield churchyard. It happened at Lundhill Colliery, Wombwell on February 19th, 1852. One hundred and eighty nine men and boys were killed. At that very time eleven year old Elizabeth Ashton was making "herb beer" at her home nearby. Interviewed by "The Times" in 1928, she remembered going to the pithead with other local women to try to identify the bodies. She said, “They were as black as coal, and it was impossible to tell one from another.”
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