Last week’s photograph was a significant moment in our Town’s history, a published postcard of the procession for the funerals of local miners, Andrew Brooks and William Dougherty, two victims of the Norton Hill Pit Disaster in 1908.

The procession is making its way along Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, and is seen here about to head into the High Street, opposite the Stones Cross.

Ten miners died in the explosion, the youngest being fourteen-year-old powder boy, Harry Sage. It is reported that rescuers, including colliery owner, Frank Beauchamp, worked overnight to save the trapped workers, many themselves overcome by the fumes.

Nineteen miners were saved. Back then, scenes like this would have been published as postcards and sold widely, a forerunner to news today.

Those who guessed the location correctly were: Winston Eyles, Paul Hancock, Jeff Parsons, Don Deverill, Karen Thayer, Les Box, Hannah Selway, Lucy Sidwick, Dan Clark, The Wasters Skittle team, Neil Gillard, Ken Cottle, Simon Chard and Pauline Fogden.

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This week’s photograph is courtesy of Radstock Museum, who are helping us to keep the feature running, alongside all of your wonderful readers’ pictures. Keep them coming!

All visitors to Radstock Museum can sit and browse through over eight hundred old, local photographs on the public access computers. Glossy 7x5 prints of the photos can be bought, subject to copyright.

Museum tickets are annual: www.radstockmuseum.co.uk