Fenton Park Miners' Poem (off Dividy Road)
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Fenton Park Miners' Poem (off Dividy Road)
Image: © Stu JP Taken: 20 Dec 2015
Situated behind Hall Hill Drive is a park with this concrete plaque, which reads: There's black ash beneath the green, gob fires burning under Gas Hill, And beneath it all, Bones of miners buried still. It is a memorial to a fatal gas explosion in 1889, which killed 64 miners. Stoke on Trent used to be a major mining industry in many of its six towns.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.006022
Longitude
-2.130355