Yesterday's Witness S02 E02 Levant Mine Disaster

On Monday, 20 October 1919, disaster hit the little villages of St Just and Pendeen, near Lands End. 31 men were lost in an accident which has been described as Cornwall's worst mining tragedy within living memory. Almost every household in the neighbourhood lost a relative. Shocked Cornishmen all over the world contributed money to help widows and orphans in the stricken villages.