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- Surname
- BAILEY
- Forename
- John Jnr
- Day
- 05
- Month
- 02
- Year
- 1931
- Age
- 21
- Occupation
- Hewer
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Haig Pit
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Whitehaven Colliery Co. Ltd
- Location
- Whitehaven
- County
- Cumberland
- Details of Event
- Explosion of firedamp in the No.3 North District caused by shot firing. 27 killed. Single man of 9, York Road, Arrowthwaite. He had narrowly missed death in the last explosion at the colliery, Robert Vincent, 50 a married man who was a deputy of Hill Top Road, Kells. He left a widow and nine children.
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