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Joseph Armstrong
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| Died: | 20th Sep 1831 |
| Accident: | 20th Sep 1831 |
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| Colliery: | Willington, High Pit |
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| Notes: | killed in the 1831 explosion |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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About nine o'clock in the morning, a dreadful explosion took place in the Willington High Pit, the property of Messrs. Bell and Co., by which three men and eight horses were killed, and fourteen men severely burnt. The whole complement of men were in the colliery at the time of the accident, and many more lives must have been lost, but from another outlet to the pit, by which the men were drawn up. The names of the sufferers were, Michael Martin, Thomas Nicholls, and Joseph Armstrong.
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- Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, published in 1833 in two volumes
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