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Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
Tragically occurring just 12-years after a similar explosion that had killed 81 men in the same colliery, the Senghenydd disaster remains the worst mining disaster in the history of the British ...
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 ...
The Universal Colliery Disaster in Senghenydd killed 440 people in the UK’s worst ever mining disaster. Prepare To Meet Thy God was sung during the original memorial service in 1913.
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 ...
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 ...
A memorial to all of the victims of Wales' mining disasters is being unveiled today, 100 years since the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. 439 miners, and one rescue worker, were killed at the ...
The object is an ink well formed from the hoof of a pit pony called Kruger who was killed in the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster 14th October 1913. The event was the worst mining accident in British ...
The Senghenydd colliery disaster, when 439 miners were killed by a gas explosion, is the worst accident in British mining history.
A memorial to all of the victims of Wales' mining disasters will be unveiled today, 100 years to the day since the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. 439 miners, and one rescue worker, were killed at ...
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 ...