Pit Disaster Memorial

For it was in a flooded mine their lives they 
gave,
Interred to the sodden earth half filled 
watery grave,
And as the rain clouds banked slowly to the 
West,
Those miners of Tyneside were at last 
laid to rest.

Lines from the poem, ‘Montagu Pit’ by fellow miner and poet, Sid Smith 

A sculpture in Scotswood, Newcastle, commemorating the 38 men and boys who tragically lost their lives in the 1925 Montagu View pit disaster.

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