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Montagu View Pit Disaster
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| 30th March 1925 |
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The photograph shows the memorial to the 38 men and boys who lost their lives in the Montagu view pit disaster at Scotswood Newcastle upon Tyne on March 30th 1925, and who are interred at elswick cemetery Newcastle upon Tyne. The tragedy was caused by millions of gallons of water flooding into the mineworkings in the brockwell coal seam from old workings.
Their names are
S A Evans W Thompson W J Johnson R (Heslop) Batey T A Latcham W A Trewick J T Trewick W A Lyons J Murthwaite I Booth J W Potts C Simpson J Thompson W Fowler W Guthrie M Errington D G Dixon C E Grey John Lee R Thompsom James Nixon R Rogers T Danskin R Carr J Havelock J W Martin F T Dent W Halliday J Steel J Nixon A Learmouth T W Baty ALSO G Hetherington M Hetherington J Fitzpatrick J Salmon C Batey E Jackson not interred there. Those we love don't go away They walk beside us every day Unseen unheard but always there Still loved still missed everywhere And the Lord's promise is He that followeth me Shall not walk in darkness But shall have the light of life The lord is our light To banish the darkness To make bright our path Through Life And to lead us to the light of eternal glory Eternal life is in that Home on high Unharmed upon the eternal rock The eternal city stands And one day we'll all meet again In a beautiful garden Of sunshine. |
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Also Remembering
All other miners
And all the armed forces
The men and women
Who gave their lives
For their Country
So we could all live
in peace.
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