Huskar Community Rooms, Silkstone
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Huskar Community Rooms, Silkstone
Image: © Chris Morgan Taken: 1 Jul 2020
Keeping alive memories of the Huskar Pit where 26 children aged from 7 to 17 drowned in a disaster in 1838, 11 of them girls. That led to the Mines Act of 1842 which prohibited girls and boys under the age of ten from working underground.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.543191
Longitude
-1.565053