simonrl
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16 years ago
BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/8267359.stm 

"BBC" wrote:

A series of events is being staged in Wrexham to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a mining disaster which killed 266 men.

On 22 September, 1934, an explosion - possibly caused by a spark off a tool - ripped through Gresford colliery.

An air raid siren sounded in the town at 1100 BST, while Wrexham FC will play on Tuesday in commemorative shirts and will release 266 black balloons.

Albert Rowlands, 89, is thought to be the last survivor of the gas blast.


my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by
steve turbo
16 years ago
from what i was told by my gran a number of years ago members of my own family worked there at the time but luckily were not underground at the time .
lipsi
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16 years ago
Can I pont you to a track called "Colliers" by Seth Lakeman, on his album Freedom Fields. It is based on the Gresford Disaster, and is a powerful musical representation of the facts behind the case
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground.
That's where I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So follow me down Cousin Jack
(Grateful thanks to Show of Hands)

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