Hartley Pit Disaster 1862 - Remembered in Poetry
May 31, 2014, 08:31 AM
To commemorate 150 years since the disaster, Northern Voices Community Projects produced the book Still the Sea Rolls On - The Hartley Pit Calamity of 1862 with contributions of writing, drawings & photographs by local people. From this book, listenupnorth.com recorded & uploaded a selection of poetry which was recorded at the historic Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne