The Site Today
In the early 1980s the National Coal Board and the local council erected a memorial to the disaster. The inscription reads:
| “ | To the memory of those who lost their lives in the fight to extract coal from this mine, Minnie Pit, Halmerend, 1890-1931. | ” |
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