Black Snow | Telling the stories of the Oaks Colliery Explosion

[@debbiey01]

Watched in rembrance of my four ancestors lost in the disaster. Appreciate that this movie was made to tell the story.

[@Cxwl9]

May all our fallen coal miners Rest In Peace. .⚒️. This was a very informative video of the disaster and what is being done in remembrance too the lost souls ...

[@2eldeano]

Just found this film about the Oaks Disaster and it has brought tears to my eyes. Those poor people and what they went through, we don't know we are born these days :-(

[@nialloneill5097]

My family was from this area of Barnsley and Cortonwood...always an air of apprehension and grit about them...an austerity that came from knowing not only there might not be a crumb on the table tomorrow...but they may not be alive...stories of the horse and cart taking the bodies up the Pit Lane as klaxons sounded...and the village folk lined up on Cortonwood Hill in bitter wintry winds...who had gone this time? Grief takes time to heal...many gaping open wounds I sense...not only from the work, but the after effects of the Strike and Pit Closures... I have only more thing to say to thee Mrs T...gizza a job!

[@rosalindclay3764]

I lost three relatives in this dreadful disaster. I was stunned when I found out. I've been researching as much as I can but this is a very informative film.

[@suem.beachell9568]

I lost a great great grandfather.George Marshall.. He was 29years and left a young wife and 3 small children .. I'd heard something of it through family.. But only through genealogy did I realise how bad it was.. He wasn't found until the January and it wasn't recorded until Feb.. Very sad

[@angelmoon1959]

Heartbreaking account of the abuse the working class suffered, I am proud to say I was brought up in the Barnsley area and this had me crying like a baby

[@dalescarfe9908]

Very emotional to watch, great short film.

[@issyjones2898]

i’m watching this for school work. i just can’t believe this happened! i’ve recently moved to barnsley so i’ve never heard about this before

[@Ishybunny16]

Hi person I am doing the same

[@Centunko]

Same

[@kianallsop3312]

same

[@anthonytindle13]

Don't know if I lost any of my family at the oaks minining disaster but certainly did at lundhill as that's where I'm from and can still see the golf course that's situated on the old colliery site with the larger concrete blocks over the shafts I used to play around the shafts as a junior being careful not to slip in I would have been lost for good down them. And going to Corton wood with my spade and getting slag for my home fire during strike. Wheeling it home in barrow especially during that winters snow.

[@joehiggs100]

Well done, just heard about this on BBC arts and ideas.

[@stephenlinstead7336]

Thanks Bob. We're on TV this week Thursday December 12, 18.30 Together TV channel.

[@suem.beachell9568]

@@stephenlinstead7336 thank you for this film.. Much appreciated

[@miyaashton5955]

Not ALMOST slave-like conditions...the conditions were extremely cruel! I first became interested in mining in Scotland after reading "The Camerons", by Robert Crichton (my great-great grandfather was from Scotland). I was absolutely appalled by how the Lairds treated the miners...can you please upload a more detailed (and hopefully longer) video that sheds more light on the living conditions, dangers, etc of being a Scottish miner during the 19th century? I would greatly appreciated. Deagh dhùrachd from across the pond! 😊✌️❤

[@bremnersghost948]

Take a look at the various Coal Seams and how the Geology of each of them was the underlying (no pun intended) Cause of most of the Various Disasters, From Firedamp to Water Ingress depending on Location & Depth. Barnsley Main Seam and even worse the Silkstone Seam were especially notorious!

[@Rosaj33m]

Hello Stephen. I'm Rob Linstead from Conisborough, any relation?

[@stephenlinstead7336]

Hi Rob - quite probably. My dad was Ron Linstead and my Grandad Albert. My grandad was the youngest of 8 and they lived in the Dearne Valley - Cudworth, Grimethorpe, Hemsworth, S. Elmsall. There was a branch of the family that we lost touch with but I knew when I was younger. I have a half brother I never met - I think called David. And Paul Linstead used to play rugby at Barnsley as did I but we never met as he started playing just after I stopped.

[@stephenlinstead7336]

HiRob - I don't know but it's quite likely that we are connected as my family have lived in and around the mining areas north and east of Barnsley (Pontefract, Rotherham, Doncaster} since the time of the Oaks

[@anthonytindle5758]

Pillars commonly known as a pit prop I know this being a Barnsley lad but I didnt work down the pits like my uncles father and grand fathers and the males before them with my friends etc. As did all the males that left school before 1984, kids these days would die laughing if the had to work hard to earn a living.

[@Centunko]

Who's here from horizon to do school work

[@borisjohnson7553]

*me*

[@imalittlesausage8213]

Me

[@daanhardacre7029]

Me

[@daanhardacre7029]

@Olivier Karcz yes Oliver

[@anthonytindle13]

You can always tell a miner cause when he talks never uses the word the especially in Yorkshire.

[@arp2203]

وش جابني هنا ؟؟

[@Ishybunny16]

My school is sending this out for people to watch so hi people at my school

[@Nik-8it5p]

Tousi dodgy internet again!

[@borisjohnson7553]

Oh boy this comment section is about to get ruined with the people from Horizon! ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)