In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

This is the memorial the 45 men who died in the Six Bells Colliery disaster of 1960.

It is located in the village of Six Bells which is in the County of Gwent, South Wales. The memorial stands where the pit head used to be.

It was unveiled in June 2010 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

The Statue is 20m tall and was designed by Sebastian Boyesen.

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

A memorial plaque erected in the village of Pontyberem, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire in memory of all those who died in the coalmines of the Gwendraeth Valley over the years.

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

My friend Jen has a set here in Flickr called "Les lieux de mémoire", which came to mind several times in the last few days, though the sense of that is probably quite different to the reason for this.

This square in the small village of Fossalto, Molise, Italy, is named after a town in West Virginia. On the 6th of December 1907, at 10:25, the worst mining accident, perhaps the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States ocurred there.

A huge underground explosion killed many hundreds of miners. The precise number of vicitims will probably never be known with certainty, but some reliable recent estimates are in excess of 500 killed. Records say that the blast was felt up to twenty miles away. Three members of two thirty-man rescue teams lost their lives in trying to reach the buried miners.

This disaster was mainly if not exclusively due to the lack of adequate safety measures in the mine. And this was at least partly due to insufficient legislation regulating mining activity. It was not easy for miners to change this situation. Industrial action was heavily discouraged - in at least one case (Eureka, Nevada, 1879) miners lost their lives for proposing to strike.

Yet there were some positive results of the Monongah disaster.

The American press and public rose generously to the occasion to quickly establish a support fund for the widows and orphans of the vicitims.

Also, partly as a response to the public outcry, Congress established the US Bureau of Mines to research the causes of such disasters. The Bureau only acquired powers of inspectorate much later, in 1941, following a number of other mining accidents.

The first of May is Labour Day in Italy, amongst other countries, and is meant to remember and celebrate the achievements of workers in the field of Civil Liberties and Rights. It seems right to remember the poor emigrant workers of southern Italy who lost their lives overseas on such a day.

It also seems a cruel irony that in today's age, when technology can mitigate or eliminate many of the risks of mning, the nation with the worst record of mining and industrial accidents is China - a nation whose government supposedly bases its politics on the protection of the workers above all other categories of society.

For those interested, the essence of the story is told here, with photographs from the time:

www.msha.gov/DISASTER/MONONGAH/MONON1.asp

For those who can read Italian, more on the Monongah catastrophe here:

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disastro_di_Monongah

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

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Crowd leaving Ditchfield Gardens Westhoughton after the unveiling of the memorial to the 344 miners who were killed in an explosion at Pretoria Pit on 21st December 1910

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!

In the year 1866, 361 lives were lost in the Oaks Colliery Explosion on the 12th and 13th of December.

Up to and for the next 47 years it was Great Britain’s worst mining disaster.

At the Senghenydd Colliery on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913 the explosion which occurred deep underground constituted the greatest disaster in the annals of British mining with the number of persons killed by the explosion or who died from the effects of the afterdamp was 439 and one rescuer.

This is the Centenary year of the great disaster, may they rest in peace.

The Original Report that i have managed to borrow has been carefully scanned and reproduced so that anyone can now read the full account of the disaster that unfolded. The original plans were scanned and posted earlier in the year in the Mining Disaster Plans Set so you can now relate the drawings to the report. ENJOY!!!!