What the records say
- When
- 14 Apr 1874
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 53.47° N, 2.09° W
- Description
- mining accident in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England
- Deaths
- 54
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Astley Deep Pit Disaster: a mining accident as the result of an explosion in Dukinfield, Cheshire, kills 54.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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