Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. At 8.10am on the morning of October 14, 1913, Evan James and Charles Brown were starting their mining shift 2,000ft beneath a green valley in South Wales.

MINERS working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd were in the middle of their morning shifts 2,000ft below the ground 100 years ago today when a massive explosion ripped through the deep pit ...

Senghenydd colliery flourished in the war years, but the coal industry had already begun its decline by 1914. In 1928, Universal Colliery packed up and shut its doors, taking any money left with it.

At 8.00am on Tuesday 14 October 1913 a huge explosion rocked the tiny town of Senghenydd, to the north of Caerphilly. It came from the coal mine belonging to the Universal Colliery, the most ...

The 1913 Senghenydd Colliery disaster casts a grim shadow over the nation to this day. On the eve of the tragedy’s centenary, Sion Morgan looks back at one of the bleakest days in Welsh history ...

Miners working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, south Wales, were in the middle of their morning shifts 2000ft below the ground when a massive explosion ripped through the deep pit at 8 ...

In 2013, on the 100th anniversary of the disaster, the Welsh National Mining Memorial was unveiled on the old colliery site, to commemorate miners killed in the Senghenydd disasters and also to ...

LONDON, May 25.—An explosion occurred yesterday morning at the Universal Colliery, at Senghenydd, in the Rhondda Valley. Over eighty men were in the pit at the time of the disaster, and there is ...

Crickhowell and Christ College, Brecon, return game marks 100 years since mining tragedy memorial match ...

A day of events marking the 100th anniversary of Britain's worst mining disaster is taking place in Senghenydd, where an explosion killed 440 people.

The victims of Wales's mining disasters will be remembered tomorrow on the 100-year anniversary of an explosion that killed hundreds of people. The Senghenydd colliery disaster, when 439 miners ...

Miners working at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, south Wales, were in the middle of their morning shifts 2000ft below the ground when a massi Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...