Disaster memorial

Memorial to the 57 men killed in the explosion in the Banbury seam at No.4 Pit, Sneyd Colliery, Burslem, 1st January 1942. It also commemorates the rescue teams who worked to try to save them and also recover the bodies. The official cause of the disaster was found to be that tubs had derailed and damaged an electric cable. Subsequent sparking has ignited coal dust and precipitated the explosion.