{"id":17683,"date":"2022-09-04T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=17683"},"modified":"2022-09-04T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:38:52","slug":"mining-in-bedminster","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/mining-in-bedminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining in Bedminster and the Dean Lane pit disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17736 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-604x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-604x453.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Board.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Lane Pit information board in Dame Emily Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many of those who crowd the streets of Bedminster during <em>Upfest<\/em> or for the <em>Winter Lantern Parade<\/em> are probably oblivious that they are actually deep in mining country. For many residents, the idea that this was once an area where several coalmines existed and men emerging from pits covered in coaldust was a feature of the working day, has long been forgotten. Above ground, there are no surviving reminders of that history except a single noticeboard in Dame Emily Park. But below the nearby concrete plinth that was once a bandstand lies a deep mine shaft that was the scene of a pit explosion that cost several lives, one of hundreds of deaths during Bedminster\u2019s mining history.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Dyer will explore the tragedy that took place at the end of the nineteenth century and the wider history of the Bedminster coalmines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17737 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-604x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-604x453.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dean-Lane-Bandstand.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bandstand covering the Dean Lane Pit shaft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those who crowd the streets of Bedminster during Upfest or for the Winter Lantern Parade are probably oblivious that they are actually deep in mining country. For many residents, the idea that this was once an area where several coalmines existed and men emerging from pits covered in coaldust was a feature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[197],"tags":[856,1625,1616,1620,1617,902,1619,1626],"class_list":["post-17683","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-workers-organisations-strikes","tag-bedminster","tag-dame-emily-park","tag-dean-lane","tag-disaster","tag-malago-vale","tag-miners","tag-pits","tag-south-liberty-lane"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mining in Bedminster and the Dean Lane pit disaster - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/mining-in-bedminster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mining in Bedminster and the Dean Lane pit disaster - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many of those who crowd the streets of Bedminster during Upfest or for the Winter Lantern Parade are probably oblivious that they are actually deep in mining country. 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