The closure of Kellingley Colliery 10 years ago marked the end of deep-pit coal mining in Britain - here is its history.

A relic from a rail disaster which claimed 12 lives more than 100 years has gone on public display after being found in a ...

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 Senghenydd colliery disaster of October 1913 saw 439 miners killed after an explosion tore through the Universal Colliery. A spark from an electric bell had ignited a deadly mix of methane gas ...

In terms of numbers killed, the tragedy was unprecedented and remained Britain's worst mining disaster, until 1913, following the explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd near Caerphilly in ...

Everyone in Senghenydd lost family or friends in the 1913 disaster. It left 542 children fatherless and made widows of more than 200 women.

The Universal Colliery had itself suffered an earlier explosion, in 1901, which killed 81 miners. Everyone in Senghenydd lost family or friends in the 1913 disaster.

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 ...

Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old. Disasters affect all, human and non-human alike.

Perpetual disaster has been the context for that work. “From our perspective, it was Harvey; and then from Harvey, there was a tropical storm two years after,” Barley reflected.

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.

ALMOST 900 men and boys went to work at the Pretoria Pit on December 21,1910 - 344 never returned home. In an instant, 344 men and boys (the youngest just 13) lost their lives as a result of an ...