Hartley Pit Disaster 1862 – Remembered in Poetry
To commemorate 150 years since the disaster, Northern Voices Community Projects produced Still the Sea Rolls On – The Hartley Pit Calamity of 1862 with contributions of writing, drawings & photographs by local people. From this book, we recorded a selection of poetry which was recorded at the historic Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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St Albans Churchyard by Geoff Holland
New Hartley by Geoff Holland
Extracts from An Almanac by Pippa Little
Memorial Mine by Dave Alton
History Lesson by Elaine Cusack
The Village Schoolroom by G F Phillips
The Jowling by Pippa Little
The Hartley Pit Disaster by Robert Lonsdale
Hartley Pit Disaster January 16th 1862 by Keith Armstrong
Hartley: Tally Chalked Up by Dave Alton
204 Men and Boys by Catherine Graham
The Hartley Calamity by Joseph Skipsey and read by Keith Armstrong
