Liverpool District - Mines & Quarries Report 1897. Home Office Report - includes details of 86 fatalities giving date, colliery, name of owner or company, persons names, ages, occupations and causes of death. Details of the disaster at Tawd Vale Colliery, Skelmersdale, on the 30th November when the river bed collapsed and flooded the mine. 45pp folio with a sketch of Tawd Vale and 4 views taken from photographs. Stitched blue printed wrap. Very good condition