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'There's a lot of miners out there we could help'
Public donations for their relatives totalling £750,000 were gathered in the aftermath, leading to the creation of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaster Fund. All beneficiaries have since died ...
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Lofthouse
The Lofthouse Colliery Disaster Fund hopes to widen its remit to help miners who are injured or ill. Fountains Earth Church of England Primary School in Upper Nidderdale will close by 31 March.
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Proto self-contained breathing apparatus
A team also used this type of equipment during difficult underwater rescue attempts in the Lofthouse Colliery Disaster in Yorkshire in 1973.