Skerne - The Trimdon Grange Explosion
M3M Recordings  (2001)

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CD Single    3 tracks  (08:16) 
   01   The Trimdon Grane Explosion             04:34
   02   Gresford (The Miners Memorial Hymn)             00:55
   03   The Trimdon Grane Explosion (Voices Only)             02:47
Personal Details
Purchase Date 22/01/2022
Price £0.20
Store Forces Support (Hartlepool - Middleton Grange Shopping Centre)
Location Ryman 18L Box 08
Details
Cat. Number M3MCD51
UPC (Barcode) 5026525010237
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Musicians
Lead Vocals John Burton
Vocals Marshal Thomas
Vocals Eddie Thomas
Vocals Peter Brookes
Vocals Brian Priestley
Vocals Dermot Roddy
Vocals Wyn Morgan
Cornet Lynsey Jordan
Notes
Sleeve notes:

From the [former] Prime Miniter's home village of Trimdon, a former mining community in County Durham, we bring you a song by Tommy Armstrong, "the Pitmans Poet". In February 1882, when this small village lost 74 of its men and boys between the ages of 13 and 60 in a tragic explosion at Trimdon Grange Colliery, Tommy wrote the song that very night. It has been sung as a lament by the folksingers and choirs, of the community ever since. The tragedy of 11th September 2011, in the United States affected all of us around the world. When Skerne performed the song at Trimdon folk festival, with guests from the USA in the audience, all were struck by the relevance of the words to those seeking to come to terms with the unimaginable and unnecessary loss. Skerne, and a group of friends in the community, were so moved by the suffering across the Atlantic that they felt this song which helped the people of Trimdon to cope with their grief and sorrw all those years ago might show that we care and that, through its sales, a little assistance might be given to the funds set up to aid survivors and relatives of the victims. We hope that the closing lyric may ring true for all humanity, that it can indeed find a way to build a world "Where explosions are no more"

No year on cover, but due to the nature of the subject matter, it will probably be 2001.