Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 1910 which claimed 344 lives

PART OF:
Lancashire Coal Mining Collection transferred from Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster

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Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Musuem

Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Pocket watch taken from the scene of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 1910 which claimed 344 lives, Lancashire's worst mines disaster. Stopped at 7.50 a.m. the watch was used to verity the time of the explosion. The watch belonged to William Davenport one

of only three survivors. The blast ripped it out of his pocket and out of a protective carrying case. Davenport survived as a result of a tub being upturned over him, giving him enough clean air to survive until rescue arrived.

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Category:
Coal Mining
Collection:
Lancashire Coal Mining Collection
Object Number:
Y2002.19/T0551
type:
watch
credit:
Gift of Salford Museum and Art Gallery