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| Picture No | 10812397 |
| Date | 14th October 1913 |
| Description | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales |
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Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK. Here members of the rescue party are pictured, assisted in the arrangement of their safety helmets before a descent into the burning pit.
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| Source | Photograph by the Illustration Bureau in The Illustrated London News, 18th October 1913, page 589. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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