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title: "The Unity Brook Disaster"
url: "https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2020-03-12-13-58-44-the-unity-brook-disaster"
school: "St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School"
---

# The Unity Brook Disaster

  ![Image of The Unity Brook Disaster](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/images/blog/IMG_0661%5B1%5D(1).JPG)  12 March 2020   [Sarah Kinsey](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/author/SarahK)   [Year 3 Blog](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/category/year-3-blog)

Today  marks the anniversary of the Unity Brook disaster.  To mark the occasion we visited the graves of those who were buried in St Stephen's graveyard in the morning and then, in the afternoon, we took part in a moving service at the memorial which is close to where the disaster took place.

 [ Spellings](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2020-03-12-10-07-09-spellings) [Unity Brook Commemoration ](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2020-03-12-14-06-18-unity-brook-commemoration)

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