A year ago today, Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson unveiled a permanent monument to a mining disaster that will forever be intertwined with the identity of both the area and its football club. The ...
At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning 56 years ago escalated quickly ...
POTTSVILLE – One of the worst mining disasters in Schuylkill County history was caused by a safety device. On July 23, 1892, in the York Farm Colliery mine, hundreds of feet beneath where John S.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a “remarkable” man and stalwart of the Wrexham mining community. Ted McKay, a founding member of ...
TODAY marks the 91st anniversary of the Gresford Colliery Disaster. It was one of the worst mining disasters in history. An unimaginable 262 miners and four rescuers lost their lives, making 166 local ...
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