On 31 July 1902, 96 men and boys were killed underground during a day at work. Grandfathers, fathers and sons working together, perished together and this has affected the community ever since.
How did Australia’s first mineral export, coal, shape the men and women who lived the mining life… beneath black skies? This remarkable history of the area is told through the miner’s, their wives, their unions, mining historians, and the mining official’s perspectives.
Beneath Black Skies is narrated by Australian actor David Field with a striking musical score, and dramatic re-enactments of the late 19th and early 20th Century.
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