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On the 29th of May 1951 an explosion at Easington Colliery causing 83 deaths. The garden of remembrance is a memorial to the miners. The garden is rectangular and defined by a low beech hedge. To the east are two rectangular areas of lawns and a raised bed with rounded ends, the latter of which features a coal-cutting machine, painted red and mounted on short lengths of track. At the centre of the Garden are four raised flower beds of squared and coursed rubble. Rising from the south west bed is a cross formed from four miners’ picks. To the west are the two rectangular areas of communal graves, divided by stone borders into a total of 72 individual grave spaces. They are marked with raked stone tablets which record the name and age of death in Roman capitals.
Title
Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial
Date
1954
Medium
sandstone
Measurements
H 40 x W 40 x D 15 cm (E)
Accession number
SR8_LG_S014
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
Monument
Owner
Easington District Council
Custodian
Easington District Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
29th May 1954
Listing date
25/08/16
Access
time restrictions apply
Access note
Cemetery opening times
Inscription description
on western screen: THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / EIGHTY THREE MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE / EASINGTON COLLIERY DISASTER / TWENTY NINTH MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED & FIFTY ONE / SEVENTY TWO GRAVES ARE IN THIS CEMETERY / THE FOLLOWING NINE MEN ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE / FREDERICK CARR · RICHARD CHAMPLEY · JOSEPH GODSMAN / ERNEST GOYNS · HERBERT GOYNS · JOHN HARKER / JOHN WM HENDERSON · STANLEY PEACEFUL · STEPHEN WILSON / ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF TWO BRAVE MEN / JOHN YOUNG WALLACE AND HENRY BURDESS / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES / AS RESCUE WORKERS AND WHO ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE; on eastern screen: REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR / LIVES IN THE EASINGTON COLLIERY DISASTER IN / MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE TO WHOM / THIS GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE IS DEDICATED
