Houghton Main Colliery Memorial
📍 Little HoughtonSouth Yorkshire
A pit wheel memorial on Ings Lane, put up by Little Houghton Parish Council in the 1990s. It remembers the five men who died in the Houghton Main colliery explosion on 12 June 1975.
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A pit wheel memorial on Ings Lane, put up by Little Houghton Parish Council in the 1990s. It remembers the five men who died in the Houghton Main colliery explosion on 12 June 1975.
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