Story of miner who risked his life for a pit pony features at Wentworth Woodhouse mining exhibition
The bravery of a teenage miner who laid his life on the line to save his pit pony during a mining accident is set to pull on heartstrings in a new exhibition at Wentworth Woodhouse.During a roof fall at his pit in Elsecar, while all uninjured miners ran to find their way out of tumbling rock, pit props and choking dust, John Willie Bell deliberately ran the other way - […]
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