Apprentice electrician Brian Rawsthorne was one of 11 men working deep under the ground in Golborne Colliery's Plodder Seam on 18 March 1979. The 20-year-old would be the only one of them to live to ...
A COMMEMORATIVE march is set to take place on the 40th anniversary of a mining disaster. Residents will walk in remembrance of the Golborne Colliery disaster in which an underground explosion happened ...