The memorial is on the south side of Batley Road, opposite the junction with Wrenthorpe Lane. The Lofthouse Colliery disaster occurred when a new coalface was excavated too close to an abandoned, ...

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.

A service will be held at the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Memorial on Sunday, February 16, 2025 - exactly 116 years after the disaster. There will also be a minute's silence at the exact time ...

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 ...

A Channel 9 anchor has broken down on air paying tribute to her colleague - a veteran journalist and news anchor who announced his retirement after 17 years at the network. Andrew “Lofty ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nine News Queensland announced on Monday the retirement of its long-standing evening news presenter Andrew Lofthouse. Lofthouse said ...

9News Queensland has announced the retirement of esteemed presenter and journalist Andrew ‘Lofty’ Lofthouse, to focus on his health. Lofthouse has been with Nine for 17 years, 16 of those ...

"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 ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

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The 266 men and boys who died at the colliery are remembered at the station. Richard and Robert Tarran say the fact their ancestor, John Tarran, was one of the disaster's victims made their ...