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Serious Gas Poisoning, 1896

On the morning of Wednesday 18th November 1896, a drama unfolded midway down Stonefield Road. In this era, there were few houses, the area dominated by the Dixons Colliery Pit No 4 but it was at those few houses, where events took place. At two blocks of houses, just east of Larkfield, three families were […]