[Rowlf]

I was working in the switch room at Burnley telephone exchange and remember all the 999 calls coming in. Then one of the other operators was taken out of the room and we later learnt her father had been killed. He was Tom Isherwood. I knew a man who lived in Hapton who was injured. My father in law was the first ambulance on the scene and he went down to the coal face to treat the injured. I find that a brave thing to do as he would not know if there would be another explosion. He worked along side Nurse Waggot I believe.