On Sunday 6th July, members of Hetton Town Council attended the Miners’ Service at Hetton Methodist Church to honour and remember the nine men who tragically lost their lives in the Eppleton Colliery Disaster of 1951.
Following the service, a wreath of remembrance was laid at the mining memorial in Hetton Lyons Country Park.
At 1:50am on that fateful day, an explosion occurred at the colliery, claiming the lives of:
Thomas Laverick Box
Ronald Foster
Richard Parkin
Albert Patterson
James Walker
Norman Holmes
William George Hicks
Alan Hunter
Robert Tait
We honour their memory and the sacrifices made by all those who worked in our mining communities.
Remembering those from the Eppleton Colliery Disaster 1951
Cllr D Geddis at Hetton Lyons Country Park Miners Memorial
