Lofthouse Colliery disaster

53°42′54″N 1°30′18″W / 53.715°N 1.505°W / 53.715; -1.505 The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident in Lofthouse, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on Wednesday 21 March 1973, in which seven mine workers died when workings flooded.[1]

Memorial to disaster
  1. ^ "The Lofthouse Colliery Disaster". BBC. January 2003. Retrieved 28 July 2011.