Although outside the area we cover, we have included this text here to illustrate the employment of children in the mines, and the perils associated with that employment.

In the mining community of Silkstone men, boys & girls started work but at about 2 pm a fierce storm started. A warning was sent to the miners, some tried to exit via a drift in Nabbs Wood. Sadly a swollen stream near the entrance burst its banks.

A torrent of water poured into the drift and 26 children aged between 7 and 17 were drowned in seconds.

The children were buried on 7th July 1838. The girls in three graves and the boys in four graves.