ACROSS Barnsley people paused to remember the hundreds of men and boys killed 150 years ago this week in the Oaks Colliery Disaster.
It was about 1.15pm on December 12 1866 when the low rumble of a catastrophic explosion was heard across Barnsley.
The official death toll was 361 but research by the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership and a team of volunteers has produced a list of 383 names of those believed to have been killed.
Commemorative events began on Sunday with the laying of 383 crosses - one for each victim - put up at the Barnsley Main Colliery site at Hoyle Mill, close to the scene of the disaster.
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