Lot 544

Lund Hill Colliery Disaster 189 Dead 1857 Antique 4 Page Images

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20 Oct 2022 · No Reserve Rare Maps, Antique Steel Engraving Illustrations & Unique Collectables | Featuring Taylor & Skinner Ireland 1777, Britannia Depicta c1730, John Cary 1787, 1791, 1794 & Thomas Dugdale 1850,

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Lund Hill Colliery Disaster 189 Dead 1857 Antique.

Original Antique Wood Engraved 4 Page Reports & Illustrations.

Approx Dimensions 16.5 x 11.5 (Inches) 419 x 292 (mm).

All prints are the genuine article and not modern reproductions.

Please check images carefully for any foxing and wear these prints may have occurred over its long-life span.

All products are delivered securely in a re-enforced hard back envelope or a postal tube.

The Lundhill Colliery explosion was a coal mining accident which took place On the 19 February 1857 in Wombwell Yorkshire UK.

Which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died.

It is one of the biggest industrial disasters in the country's history and was caused by a firedamp explosion.

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