http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/memories-of-the-maypole-disaster/ In 1908, seventy-five people, many of them Irish, died in one of the British mining industry’s worst tragedys. Here, Joe Mullarkey describes that disaster, and the moves being made to commemorate those who lost their lives en Copyright © 2004 Joe Mullarkey 2004-08-03T11:15:32Z Connolly Publications Ltd, 244 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR David Granville Maypole colliery, Joe Mullarkey daily 1 2001-04-13T12:00Z