Abbeystead waterworks disaster - Ruling
- Title
- Abbeystead waterworks disaster - Ruling
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 13 Mar 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:00:58
- Description
- Interviews with survivors of the Abbeystead disaster in 05/84 on a High Court ruling that negligence by the designers, builders, and owners of the Abbeystead pumping station in Lancashire caused the explosion in which sixteen villagers died and twenty-eight others were seriously injured during a PR exercise by North West Water. The ruling means that damages will now be claimed by survivors and relatives of the victims. The interviewees are Harry Morris and poss. Tim Eckersley. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Harry Morris; Tim Eckersley?
- Keywords
- Accidents; Deaths; Fires; Industrial accidents; Lancashire; Compensation; Legal decisions; Burns; Gas explosions; Abbeystead; St. Michaels on Wyre; Pumping stations; High courts; North West Water
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LBC/IRN, "Abbeystead waterworks disaster - Ruling". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0002100189002 (Accessed 02 May 2025)