Sentence examples for pit disaster from inspiring English sources

"People listened, as they did to an ex-miner talking about a pit disaster, because he spoke from his own experience".

Two columns of miners have been marching hundreds of miles from valleys in northern regions Asturias, Aragón and León and converged on Madrid yesterday as they sang the traditional and stirring "Santa Bárbara" anthem about a pit disaster.

Mines have a long history of human tragedy: those killed in the Trimdon Grange Explosion, and the Hattonrigg Pit Disaster, 1910 are remembered by Alan Price and De Rosa respectively.

His classical profile and towering quiff give him the aspect of a teddy-boy Caesar, so blithely unaccountable for his actions that he dismisses an unwanted pregnancy as "an act of God, like a pit disaster".

A former miner who survived the 1960 Six Bells pit disaster is one of the community representatives involved.

Despite the rain, crowds turned out at Six Bells, Abertillery, where 82-year-old pit disaster survivor Joseph Price was among the baton bearers.

Moved by a series of appalling postwar pit disasters, he switched his attention to mining safety.

The days when British coal miners died in large numbers in underground pit disasters and from mining-related disease have thankfully passed.

There is good support from Gyuri Sarossy, who turns Holroyd himself into a damaged bull; from Polly Hemingway as a mother hardened to suffering from a lifetime of pit disasters; and from Jordan Mifsud as the ardent Blackmore.

The old mining community of Stoneygate, where the novel is set, becomes the locus for a tale which digs back through the land's recent history all the way to the ice age; in which the ghosts of former pit disasters mingle with the industry's modern-day victims (an unemployed father, "muttering and cursing, leaning against the pub wall"); in which class, family and heritage all have a part to play.

And it was a money-pit disaster.