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Pit victims remembered
10:40am Monday 17th March 2008
NINETEEN men who were killed in the Hapton Valley Colliery disaster 46 years ago were remembered yesterday at a special service.
The memorial event, at Burnley Cemetery, commemorated those who died on March 22, 1962, in an explosion at the Hapton Valley pit.
Two of the victims were just 16.
Thirteen others were also seriously injured in what was the worst colliery disaster in Burnley's long history of coal mining.
The colliery was reopened after the disaster and remained active until 1982.
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TRIBUTE: The oldest survivor of the Hapton Valley Colliery disaster, Bob O'Hara, lays a wreath at the memorial service
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