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 ...

Archive footage shows extent of Senghenydd colliery disaster Hold a mirror up to Senghenydd and, apart from the Welsh language signs, you could be looking at any former mining town in Britain.

Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.

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 ...