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Devizes and Wiltshire Advertiser, Thursday 10 September
1908, page 2
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While carrying out some special repairs at the Cabbage Hall Colliery, near Dudley, James Cole was killed and Samuel Nash seriously injured by a fall of coal, caused by the supports being accidentally pushed out of position. |
In the same paper (page 2):News in Brief - Commercial and IndustrialThe miners employed at Riggonheads Colliery, Haddingtonshire, have gone on strike, alleging that they are required to draw coal at an unreasonable distance. Where is/was Haddingtonshire, could it be near Edinburgh? |
Submitted by Roger Gosling |
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