Following on from Seghill,
there is a small book compiled and edited by Keith Armstrong and Peter Dixon,
if I am allowed to quote him ,(Keith Armstrong)
We are the widows of Hartley,
our men and boys are dead
our lives cracked open
damp corpses in our beds
Still the sea rolls on,
moderator please remove if this is not permitted
Still the seas roll on,
The Hartley Pit Calamity of 1862
a commemoration in words and images to mark the 150th anniversary
featuring poems,stories and drawings and photographs by local people
North Shields library do not have any copies at the moment but the Keel Row book shop opposite Christ Church does