Hartley Disaster Memorial
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Description
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"....Incised Roman letters painted black on the frieze of the east face of the pedestal : ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY OF THE 204 MINERS, WHO LOST THEIR / LIVES IN THE HARTLEY PIT, BY THE FATAL CATASTROPHE / OF THE ENGINE BREAKING, 16TH JANUARY 1862 Incised Roman letters painted black on the frieze of the south face of the pedestal: BE NOT DECEIVED: GOD IS NOT MOCKED: FOR WHAT- / SOEVER A MAN SOWETH. THAT HE SHALL ALSO REAP / (GALAT VI CHAP VII VERS) Incised Roman letters painted black on the frieze of the north face of the pedestal: THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY: FOR SUCH AN HOUR / AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. / MATTHEW XX1I CHAP XLIV VERS/ BLESSED THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD / REVN XIV CHAP XIII VERS / "IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"....." -
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Public Monuments and Sculpture Assocaition -
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Further information
Link: https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/PMSA/id/426/rec/1
Resource type: Text/Website
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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