Weekend commemorations began at the nearby Beamish Museum on Saturday afternoon, with an act of remembrance marking the disaster, staged fittingly in the site chapel in the Colliery Village.

Members of the Stanley community, some of them descendants of the deceased, gathered at the memorial, on the pit site, off Chester Road, 116 years to the day of the disaster, today (Sunday, February ...

A service will be held at the West Stanley Colliery Disaster Memorial on Sunday, February 16, 2025 - exactly 116 years after the disaster. There will also be a minute's silence at the exact time ...

The Hartley Colliery disaster killed 204 men. The accident was caused when the cast iron beam of the steam engine split in two, sending tons of debris down the pit shaft. There was no way these ...