Event - Disaster memorial fund reaches target (Cadeby)

This year will be the 100th anniversary of the Cadeby Main Disaster, which claimed the lives of 91 miners, officials and rescue workers in one of the biggest pit disasters of the 20th Century.

A group of former miners set up the Cadeby Main Memorial Group to provide a permanent memorial to all the men and boys who perished in the disaster on July 9 1912.

Now they have raised more than £15,000 in their task to create permanent Memorials in both Denaby and Conisbrough Cemeteries.

The Kingswood Dearne Valley Centre have been in continual contact with the Cadeby Main Colliery Memorial Group and recently the CEO of Kingswood, Peter Gilbert, handed the group secretary, Jim Beachill, a cheque for £1,500 as a contribution towards the fund for the memorial.

The commemoration event will take place on July 8 and includes a procession from the Kingswood site, which was the former site of Cadeby Main, to Denaby Cemetery.

From: http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/community/disaster-memorial-fund-reaches-target-1-4369958?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

News - Centenary of mine disaster (Cadeby Miners Memorial)

THE search is on for design ideas for a memorial to mark the centenary of the Cadeby mining disaster.

Some 91 men from the South Yorkshire village, near Conisbrough, died during two underground explosions on July 9, 1912.

It was the ninth worst UK mining disaster of the 20th century.

Now a commemoration team is asking local people and schools to submit ideas for a new £5,000 memorial. It will be installed at Denaby Cemetery where many of the victims are buried.

Proposals and rough ideas should be emailed to jamesbeachill@hotmail.com by June 30.

From: http://www.thestar.co.uk/community/centenary_of_mine_disaster_1_3426004

News - Mining disaster is remembered (Cadeby)

A GROUP of former miners and local historians has set up a committee to commemorate the centenary of a pit disaster.

The group plans to hold a series of events next year in honour of the 91 people who died following two explosions at Conisbrough’s Cadeby Main Colliery in 1912.

The committee is collecting information on those who died in the disaster and are asking descendents of the victims for photographs and any information they may have to help mark the anniversary.

Events being considered include an exhibition of mining memorabilia and an open air service at Denaby Cricket Ground.

The next committee meeting is at Denaby and Cadeby Miners’ Welfare on March 22 at 7pm.

Anyone wanting more information should contact Jeff Lovell on 01709 865522.

From: http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/doncaster-news/mining_disaster_is_remembered_1_3095642