Someone's tripping balls at Leicestershire county council. A memorial to a 19th century pit disaster (that, let's be frank hardly anyone knows about, including Whitwick folk), that happened at Whitwick pit unveiled in Hugglescote...by a Scouser. I can say that 'cause me dad were a Derby miner, me grandad were a Sniby miner and his dad before him.
Do you mean Derbyshire? No pits in Derby as it isn't within a coalfield! Whitwick Colliery's workings extended out to Hugglescote which is where the disaster occurred and where underground the remains of the miners lay. Snibston Colliery was dug out by miners from the North East, it was very common for Miners during Victorian times to move coalfields. People moved out of farm work to the new coalfields, most of the population of South Wales is actually descended from people who came from all over Britain and Ireland to work in the coalfield. Holditch Colliery in Newcastle under Lyme was nicknamed Brymbo after a mining village near Wrexham because of the number of miners from the Wrexham area that worked there
@@merlinonline67 You know your stuff. I appreciate it. But I always thought Whitwick Colliery was on the site that is now Morrisons, I had no idea it extended to Hugglescote.
And with thanks to our lovely Scouse Local lad 😂 Stephen Graham
Someone's tripping balls at Leicestershire county council. A memorial to a 19th century pit disaster (that, let's be frank hardly anyone knows about, including Whitwick folk), that happened at Whitwick pit unveiled in Hugglescote...by a Scouser.
I can say that 'cause me dad were a Derby miner, me grandad were a Sniby miner and his dad before him.
Do you mean Derbyshire? No pits in Derby as it isn't within a coalfield! Whitwick Colliery's workings extended out to Hugglescote which is where the disaster occurred and where underground the remains of the miners lay. Snibston Colliery was dug out by miners from the North East, it was very common for Miners during Victorian times to move coalfields. People moved out of farm work to the new coalfields, most of the population of South Wales is actually descended from people who came from all over Britain and Ireland to work in the coalfield. Holditch Colliery in Newcastle under Lyme was nicknamed Brymbo after a mining village near Wrexham because of the number of miners from the Wrexham area that worked there
@@merlinonline67 You know your stuff. I appreciate it. But I always thought Whitwick Colliery was on the site that is now Morrisons, I had no idea it extended to Hugglescote.
@@DCI-Frank-Burnside the pit head was where morrisons now stands.
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