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Description: | This painting records the scene after the mining disaster at the Hartley New Pit, North Tyneside, in 1862. The cage carrying miners was shattered by a pumping engine beam, which fell down the mineshaft. This occurred as miners were changing shifts, trapping both shifts of workers. Two hundred and four miners were killed. As a direct consequence, the law was changed so that every colliery had to have at least two shafts. Thomas Hair was a North East artist who produced a series of studies of coalmines. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists oil paintings North Tyneside living in the North East events art North East artists men coal mining | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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