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1937 – Markham Colliery Disaster

1937 – Baggaley, Edward

1937 – Cadywould, Leonard

1937 – Cauldwell, William Henry

1937 – Furniss, Joseph

1937 – Marsden, Ralph

1937 – Moreton, Charles

1937 – Official Report into the Disaster

1937 – Roddy, Frederick

1937 – Slater, Wilfred Edmund

1937 – Smith, Edmund

1938 – Markham Colliery Disaster
Alberry, Harry

1938 – Alberry, Henry (Harry)

1938 – Allen, James

1938 – Arthur Carter family photos
Atkin, Leonard

1938 – Atkin, Leonard

1938 – Bann, David

1938 – Bell, Albert

1938 – Bluer, Walter

1938 – Bown, Charles

1938 – Bradford, John Henry

1938 – Bray, John Arnold

1938 – Bray, Samuel Frederick

1938 – Brough, Herbert

1938 – Brown, Arthur

1938 – Brown, John Thomas

1938 – Buckley, George Cyril Foulds

1938 – Carter, Arthur

1938 – Clowne Church

1938 – Commons, John William Watson

1938 – Cowley, George

1938 – Davidson, George

1938 – Frost, Walter James

1938 – Furniss, Alfred

1938 – Geary, Joseph

1938 – Gee-Pemberton, Colin
Walking Together Memorial - 1938 Miner's Tag

1938 – Grainger Family

1938 – Grainger, Ambrose

1938 – Grainger, John William

1938 – Grainger, Robert Emlen

1938 – Gregory, Bernard

1938 – Gregson, Robert

1938 – Hadley, John William

1938 – Hardy, Joseph
Hargreaves Family

1938 – Hargreaves Family

1938 – Hargreaves, Herbert Jnr

1938 – Hargreaves, Herbert Snr

1938 – Hargreaves, Leslie

1938 – Haywood, Wilfred

1938 – Henson, Arthur

1938 – Hibbard, Joseph

1938 – Hill, Clarence

1938 – Hudson, Henry (Harry)

1938 – Jacklin, Lawrence

1938 – Jackson, George Henry

1938 – Jones, Enoch

1938 – Jones, Frank

1938 – Jones, Thomas

1938 – Keller, Leonard

1938 – Kerry, Samuel

1938 – Kirk, Rowe
Lamb, Alfred

1938 – Lamb, Alfred

1938 – Lavender, Harry

1938 – Lievesely, John William

1938 – Lilley, Joseph

1938 – Linathan, Felix Leonard Adlington

1938 – Lodge, Stanley
Image taken from Derbyshire Times 1938 Disaster reporting

1938 – May, Arthur

1938 – McConnon, John

1938 – Monk, Fred

1938 – Palmer, Clarence Charles

1938 – Pether, George Edward (Ted)

1938 – Pickering, William

1938 – Richards, Mark

1938 – Rodgers, Albert E

1938 – Roper, Arthur

1938 – Rowland, James Stanley

1938 – Salt, Samuel Edward D

1938 – Sherwin, William

1938 – Silcock, Clarence

1938 – Simms, Robert

1938 – Smith, Frank

1938 – Taylor, Fred

1938 – Taylor, Harry

1938 – Wale, Herbert

1938 – Wallace, Benjamin

1938 – Watson, William Wilkinson

1938 – Whelpdale, Denton

1938 – Whelpton, William Edward

1938 – Whitley, George

1938 – Williams, Matthew

1938 – Wood, Robert Henry

1938 – Yates, Thomas George

1973 – Markham Colliery Disaster

1973 – Birkin, Joseph

1973 – Briggs, Clarence

1973 – Brocklehurst, Joseph William

1973 – Brooks, Clifford

1973 – Chapman, Harry (Henry)

1973 – Cooper, Gordon Richard

1973 – Eyre, George

1973 – Kaminski, Jan

1973 – Kilroy, Michael

1973 – Official Report into the Disaster

1973 – Plewinski, Lucjan Julian

1973 – Reddish, Fred

1973 – Rodgers, Wilfred

1973 – Sissons, Charles Leonard

1973 – Stone, Frank

1973 – Turner, Charles Richard

1973 – Tyler, Albert

1973 – White, Alfred

1973 – Yates, William

1973 Markham Colliery Disaster memorial service at Chesterfield Parish Church

Community Fundraising Campaign for Markham Colliery Mining Memorial Trail

Derbyshire Heritage Awards

Disaster Reporting from the Sheffield Star in 1938

Filmed interview with Alison Bull – Hargreaves Family

Filmed interview with Frank Milnes – Harry Lavender & Ted Pether

Filmed interview with Sandra Pembleton – William Yates

Filmed interview with Shane Cooper – Gordon Richard Cooper

Five more statues added to Walking Together – Autumn 2021

Further statues added to miners memorial

Further Statues added to Miners Memorial, December 2020

Interview with Ellen Watson – William Wilkinson Watson

List of all miners to be commemorated

Markham miners memorial unveiling (16 September 2019)

Markham miners memorial unveiling (29 May 2019)

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (17 January 2018)
Launch of Walking Together figures September 2016

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (21 July 2017)

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (22 September 2016)

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (26 September 2018)

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (30 July 2013)

Markham miners remembered with memorial unveiling (4 December 2015)

Netherthorpe School & Springwell Community College

Olive Milnes

Peggy Marsden

Roy Moreton – Recollections and Reflections of earlier days – 1937 onwards

Staveley Church – 1938

Story Mine Celebration Event & Website Launch 18/11/18

Villages – Bolsover

Villages – Clowne

Villages – Staveley

Walking Together – Virtual Launch Short Film – Summer 2020

Walking Together ‘Highly Commended’ at Biennial Regional Heritage Awards

Walking Together Completed – Final 13 Figures Installed