Huskar Disaster Memorial Window, All Saints Church, Silkstone, Barnsley, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member wireworm
N 53° 32.902 W 001° 33.763
30U E 595227 N 5934235
A window to the 26 children killed in the Huskar Mine Disaster.
Waymark Code: WMHVVW
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/17/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GA Cacher
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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
WMANTH

and a further one in Nabbs Wood near to where the disaster happened, waymark reference
WMANV2
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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