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 Posted: 17:03 - 14 Oct 2013  Post subject: Senghenydd Mining Disaster - 100 Years On |
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Never knew about this  Awful tragedy:-
440 Killed
Leaving behind "205 widows, 542 children and 62 dependent parents".
www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/24465242
A new memorial has been unveiled today apparently.
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Have various great-greatdads/uncles that worked down the mines, the pictures i've got really make it seem laughable when people moan about a hard day at work now days, myself included  |
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| Posted: 02:37 - 15 Oct 2013 Post subject: |
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Gosh. I lived just down the road from that (as it were) in Caerfilthy for years and had no idea about this. People still mention Aberfan, possibly because it's still within living memory.
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| Posted: 12:18 - 15 Oct 2013 Post subject: |
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Trimdon Grange.
| Tommy Armstrong, the 'pitman poet' wrote: |
Let's not think of tomorrow,
Lest we disappointed be;
Our joys may turn to sorrow,
As we all may daily see.
Today we're strong and healthy,
But how soon there comes a change.
As we may see from the explosion
That has been at Trimdon Grange.
Men and boys left home that morning
For to earn their daily bread,
Little thought before the evening
They'd be numbered with the dead;
Let us think of Mrs Burnett,
Once had sons and now has none -
With the Trimdon Grange explosion,
Joseph, George and James are gone.
February left behind it
What will never be forgot;
Weeping widows, helpless children
May be found in many a cot.
Little children kind and loving
From their homes each day would run;
For to meet their father's coming
As each hard day's work was done.
Now they ask if father's left them,
And the mother hangs her head,
With a weeping widow's feelings,
Tells the child its father's dead.
Homes that once were blessed with comfort
Guided by a father's care
Now are solemn, sad and gloomy,
Since the father is not there.
God protect each lonely widow,
Help to raise each drooping head;
Be a Father to the orphans,
Never let them cry for bread.
Death will pay us all a visit;
They have only gone before.
We may meet the Trimdon victims
Where explosions are no more.
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Great musical version of this by Alan Price.
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| Posted: 13:53 - 15 Oct 2013 Post subject: |
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| bazza wrote: | I bet they're still blaming Thatcher for it. |
Nope its down to greedy pit owners that didn't care about their workers safety or even if they were killed
as long as the money rolled in
| Quote: | Repeated prior complaints about the working conditions at High Blantyre had been ignored. In fact, a year before, Blantyre miners had been so fearful for their safety in the mines that, when Dixon's refused them a wage rise to compensate, they went on strike and were immediately sacked |
| Quote: | It is reported that, six months after the accident, Dixon's raised summonses against 34 widows whose husbands had been killed and who had not left the tied cottages which they and their husbands had rented from the mining company. They were evicted two weeks later, on 28 May 1878.[2][4]
On 5 March 1878 at No. 3 Pit, six men were killed when the cage they were in was drawn up to the pithead wheels and overturned, throwing them to the bottom of the 150-fathom (900-ft) pit.[5] The following year, on 2 July 1879, there was a second explosion at Dixon's Pit No. 1, with the loss of 28 lives. |
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| Posted: 14:42 - 15 Oct 2013 Post subject: |
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A tragic event
https://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit/
Seriously worth a visit, it puts this horrible event into reality. I was seriously imprrssed with this 'free' tour. You see the horses stalls and heard about 6 year old kids working. Jesus. They also explain how these explosions happened. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 43 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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