Killed in a coal mine - aged 14!

 
St Luke, Cradley Heath, West Midland
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The church appeared to be almost derelict at the back although the
churchyard itself was reasonably tidy.


 
 John Tibbitts was killed at the Homer Hill Colliery in 1877 when he was just 14 years old.
 
 

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