Englands WORST Mining Disaster (The Heartbreaking Story of Oaks Colliery) Full Site Tour

Brilliant!!

Top stuff, so interesting.

As a lad from a traditionally small mining town outside of Sunderland, who now lives in Sheffield, I always like finding out about different aspects of Northern history. This was very interesting and well presented, and I look forward to more of your videos.

As an ex / redundant miner, it's great to see some of you young lads showing an interest in the pits. I just wish you could have gone down one of our deep mines and witnessed with your own eyes how we worked and lived. Myself and work mates working some.2,500 /3,000.ft below ground ..at around 120 degrees ! & ³Dropping down 1,000+ shafts at a mere.14 mtrs per second. Oh, and yes, I truly miss those days, even though it cost me the use of my right arm in a roof fall ! But bless ya kid.👍

Really enjoying your vids. 👏👏

The track lines you mentioned lead off to join the massive coal railway network that barnsley once had linking all mines in barnsley (there was loads) with the major line’s leading to the docks at hill to ship the coal out.across the road in the park was a massive viaduct that’s not there anymore and also one over stair foot roundabout that’s gone.The railway lines that once stood are now the trans penine trails

Enjoyed that. The Oaks wasnt on thst site, not tge dissaster pit at any rate but its tge nearest your going to get

Thank you for making the production.I appreciate your time spent on research.❤

What an awful tragedy , is there a monument on the property listing all the victims ? If not perhaps you could suggest the possibility of having one put up . I think that would be a proper thing to do to honor the victims . What do you think Sir ?

All The Best
Terry

Same as @crazypitf below (also from Sunderland, from a mining background in the East Durham Coalfield, Murton), just stumbled across this, and it's something I didn't even know about. I had previously thought the Hartley one was the worst, and I wasn't even close, the one in Senghenydd was the worst UK one. But this, and the others, terrible, really terrible. Thanks for this video.

There was another massive loss of life because of explosion at the burns colliery at Stanley co,durham. Its hard to imagine kids of ten years old working in that hell now

I worked at both,I actually went down that shaft every day, as a haulage lad, into the Swallow Wood Seam, it was known as the Barrow/ Barnsley Main number 2 shaft, the other shaft that reopened in 1985 was known as Barnsley Main number 4 shaft, after being sealed shut in 1966.

Is the shaft filled in or just capped off?

This was the true price of coal