Elm Colliery Rescue Brigade"

Elm Colliery, Buckley

1920

see "Bwcle-Buckley", the Archive Photograph series by Paul Mason, Flintshire Record Office. p.96. In this caption, John Hughes is named as W. Hopwood Iball.

"The provision of central rescue stations in all British coalfields became compulsory under special regulations in the 1911 Coal Mines Act, enacted in 1913-14. The "Proto" rescue equipment, seen above, had been developed from 1907."

T. J. Roberts - Brigade Captain

John Thomas Hopwood - Colliery Undermanager

W. C. A. Collin - Colliery Manager

Author: Mason, Paul

Elm Colliery Rescue Brigade"

Elm Colliery, Buckley

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