How the Woodhorn Colliery disaster 100 years ago changed a community Two descendants of the 13 men who died on August 13, 1916 describe what it meant to their families. Comments.

A moving memorial event is to be held on Saturday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Woodhorn Colliery disaster. At 6.45am on August 13, 1916, a gas explosion claimed the lives of 13 men, eight ...

A disused colliery turned museum in Northumberland could be transformed into a £15m heritage and cultural centre. It is more than 20 years since Woodhorn Colliery, near Ashington, ceased production.

Woodhorn Colliery near Ashington is now a museum dedicated to the mining industry, it hoped colleagues with a mining past will be reunited for the first time this evening. Last updated Fri 27 Sep 2013 ...

The county council and Wansbeck District Council will also use the lottery money to extend the existing Woodhorn Colliery Museum. Records office. Before it became a museum 65% of the surface buildings ...

FAMILIES of the 13 miners killed in the Woodhorn Colliery explosion are being sought for the centenary commemorations of the disaster. On Sunday, August 13, 1916, an explosion of the highly ...

Woodhorn Colliery, which opened in Ashington in 1894, was a working mine for more than 80 years, producing 600,000 tons of coal each year.

Afterwards, they will then be gifted to the Imperial War Museums and displayed during the autumn of 2018 at IWM North and IWM London. Staff at the Woodhorn Museum are working on plans to manage ...

Woodhorn Colliery Museum has secured £10m of lottery funding to turn the former working mine into a cultural attraction in Northumberland. Design consultancy Hayley Sharpe has been commissioned to ...

The poppies cascaded from the winding wheel of the old colliery, now a scheduled ancient monument The "weeping window" poppy sculpture at a Northumberland museum has contributed almost £1.8m to ...

Woodhorn Colliery, which opened in Ashington in 1894, was a working mine for more than 80 years, producing 600,000 tons of coal each year.

A group of miners who worked together more than 30 years ago at a Northumberland pit are being reunited. Woodhorn Colliery, which opened in Ashington in 1894, was a working mine for more than 80 ...