Weekend commemorations began at the nearby Beamish Museum on Saturday afternoon, with an act of remembrance marking the disaster, staged fittingly in the site chapel in the Colliery Village.

Members of the Stanley community, some of them descendants of the deceased, gathered at the memorial, on the pit site, off Chester Road, 116 years to the day of the disaster, today (Sunday, February ...

"My father told me that his father had been rescued after a major colliery disaster and then gone back down the pit with one of the search parties. "They managed to get other survivors and some ...

The explosion at West Stanley Colliery on 16 February 1909 claimed ... its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There will also be a service at the memorial site ...

A 116-year-old serviette commemorating a County Durham pit disaster which was discovered folded up inside ... kindly donated to Beamish Museum and will be on display inside the Colliery Lamp Room.

A 116-year-old serviette commemorating a County Durham pit disaster which was discovered folded up inside an old book has become the latest donation to Beamish Museum. The delicate serviette ...

Tonight will remain dry with plenty of clear spells for a time. In the early hours, a few patches of cloud will build in, but lengthy clear intervals will persist throughout. Chilly and breezy ...

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