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Contributor and mainstay of the Brownhills Blog Andy Dennis has written to me, to point out some work he’s done on a story for another local history site – Andy has researched a mine explosion involving some of his relatives in the Moira Bath Pit in Leicestershire in 1845. It’s harrowing stuff, but fascinating.
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Tagged 1845, Andy Dennis, Bath Pit, colliery, Disaster, Fionn's Mining Site, historian, history, Leicestershire, mine, Moira, Staffordshire
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