What is recorded here
Wellington Pit Memorial is shown as a memorial on the public map of Cumberland. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Wellington Pit Memorial commemorates the 1911 Wellington Colliery disaster in which 39 miners died due to a coal dust explosion. It stands as a significant local landmark remembering one of the deadliest mining accidents in the region's history.
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