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| TitleOfWork: | Oaks Colliery Disaster Memorial | |
| DescriptionOfPhoto: | adjacent gravestone | |
| DateOfCreation: | 186? | |
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| Medium: | sandstone | |
| Location: | In the churchyard of Christ Church. (SE438406) | |
| AtoZReference: | p.25 1G | |
| Postcode: | S71 5EF | |
| Street: | Doncaster Road | |
| TownOrVillage: | Barnsley | |
| AreaInTown: | Ardsley | |
| MetropolitanBorough: | Barnsley | |
| Photographer: | Dave Ball | |
| ImageCopyright: | Sheffield Hallam University | |
| AccessionNumber: | b088g | |
| Description: A sandstone pedestal with four marble faces, each inscribed, surmounted by a small obelisk, and with a marble pillar at each corner. Some floral decoration. The whole on two steps, which have been pointed around their base. There may have been a small decorative feature on teh top of the monument, if so this is now missing. Inscription: In Affectionate Remembrance / OF / EDWARD DONKIN / THE SON OF WILLIAM AND MARY DONKIN / WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT THE OAKS COLLIERY .... ALSO TOM DONKIN, SON OF / THE ABOVE AGED 16 YEARS / ALSO CHARLES DONKIN, SON OF / THE ABOVE AGED 13 YEARS ..... Comment: Several miners' graves can be seen in the churchyard adjacent to this monument. |
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