Huskar Disaster Memorial Window, All Saints Church, Silkstone, Barnsley, UK - Disaster Memorials on Waymarking.com

A stained glass window, designed by Julie Tyler, interpreted by Rachel Poole and made by over 100 volunteers in 2010 in memory of the fifteen boys and eleven girls drowned in the Huskar Coal Mine. A sudden rainstorm flooded the workings.
The names of the children are worked into the lower section of the window.
The following web site has details of the children,the pit and disaster-
(visit link)

The church is open on a Wednesday afternoon until 4.00 pm
There is room for parking on the local side roads.

In the churchyard is a memorial, waymark reference
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and a further one in Nabbs Wood near to where the disaster happened, waymark reference
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Disaster Date: 07/04/1838 Date of dedication: 01/01/2010 Memorial Sponsors: local people of Silkstone Disaster Type: Technological Relevant Website: [Web Link] Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

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