History of the Mines Rescue Service Talk

Street scene of a building with bay window surrounded by a wooden fence and brick wall
Location of Mines Rescue Station, Sheffield Road, Birdwell

Council Chamber, Barnsley Town Hall, S70 2TA, Thursday 4 December, 6.30pm-8pm

Phil Clifford, a retired local government officer, will give an illustrated presentation detailing the early years in the development of the Mines Rescue Service in the UK and explain how the first ever mines rescue station came to be built at Birdwell, a few miles south of Barnsley. His talk will explain how the service developed, influenced by local Yorkshire entrepreneurial mining officials, a disaster near Birmingham attended by a handful of local colliers, an oil well fire in Mexico, and then the Great War and its aftermath.

Hosted by Barnsley Civic Trust, in partnership with Barnsley Archives & Local Studies. Free talk, donations welcome.