Talk: The history of the Mines Rescue Service in the UK

Phil Clifford, a retired local government officer, will give an illustrated presentation detailing the early years in the development of the Mines Rescue Service in the UK and explain how the first ever mines rescue station came to be built at Birdwell, a few miles south of Barnsley. His talk will explain how the service developed, influenced by local Yorkshire entrepreneurial mining officials, a disaster near Birmingham attended by a handful of local colliers, an oil well fire in Mexico, and then the Great War and its aftermath

Free to all, no need to book in advance. In partnership with Barnsley Archives and Local Studies.