Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station
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Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station
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Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station was the first mines rescue station on the Lancashire Coalfield opened
in 1908 in Howe Bridge, Atherton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. Before Britain's first mines rescue station opened at Tankersley in Yorkshire in 1902, pit managers and volunteers were usually the first untrained mines rescuers. They fought fires, rescued victims and recovered bodies in the collieries in which they worked. Rescue stations were recommended in a Royal Commiss
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe_Bridge_Mines_Rescue_Station
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2022-04-20T06:18:36Z
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