Beamish Museum will hold an act of remembrance in its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There ...

A 116-year-old serviette commemorating the West Stanley Pit Disaster which was discovered folded up inside a book has been ...

It was at 3.45pm on Tuesday, February 16, 1909, that a muffled explosion rocked Stanley, and less than a minute later a second blast saw flames shoot into the air. West Stanley Colliery, also known as ...