A 116-year-old serviette commemorating the West Stanley Pit Disaster which was discovered folded up inside a book has been ...

Beamish Museum will hold an act of remembrance in its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There ...

and Beamish Museum is just over a mile (1.6km) from the former West Stanley Colliery. It will be displayed in the lamp cabin in the museum's 1900s Pit Village, which tells the story of the region ...

Poignant tributes were paid in County Durham at the weekend to mark the 116th anniversary of one of the worst mining ...