The first Mines Rescue station in the country was established in Birdwell! Want to know more?
There’s a talk from Phil Clifford, an expert on the subject, on Thursday 4th December in the Council Chamber at Barnsley Town Hall, beginning at 6.30pm.
Phil Clifford 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 in Birdwell: the Tankersley Mines Rescue Station.
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.
Free to all, no need to book in advance.
In partnership with Barnsley Archives and Local Studies.