Picture No | 10812399 |
Date | 14th October 1913 |
Description | Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Wales,1913. |
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Keeping their painful vigil: waiting for news by the burning pit. Photographs from The Illustrated London News, at the time of 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.
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Source | Photographs by Topical, C.N, LNA, Illustration Bureau in The Illustrated London News, 18th October 1913, page 591. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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