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FATHER AND SON KILLED

... Phillips were killed instantly, but Burns, who was further away, was fortunate enough to escape. ALARMING CAGE MISHAP. At Six Bells Colliery, near Abertillery, on Saturday night, just, the cage with twenty men in it was leaving the .pit bottom, a hauling rope ...

Published: Monday 03 July 1905
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

2000 MINERS ON STRIKE

... Llanhilleth, near Newport, to the number of nearly 2000 men, are on strike. It is also reported that the men at the Six Bells Collieries have also ceased work These are the only two collieries in South Wales to take this serious step. ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1915
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WELSH COAL CRISIS RENEWED

... Llanhilleth, near Newport, the number of nearly two thousand men, are on strike. | It is also reported that men the Six Bells Collieries have also oeased work. These are the only two collieries South Wales take this . serious step. EVADING REGISTRATION ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1915
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

¦ MA SS MEETING AT CARDIFF

... s award . A resolution was passed approving of the action of the workers at the Llaniilleth . Arael , Griffin , and Six Bells Collieries in coming out en strike as a protest An amendment advising those workmen to resume their duties was defeated by a ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1915
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ENTIRE COALFIELD OF SOUTH WALES

... Runciman's award. A resolution was passed approving of the action of the workers at the Llanhilleth, Arael, Griffin, and Six Bells Collieries in coming out on strike a protest. An amendment advising those workmen to .resume their duties was defeated by a large ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1915
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Picture by Wire on Pago U

... downpours at Aberbeeg , Monmouthshire , a laiidslido is feared between tho main road to Six Bcllsand . tho railway line near Six Bells Colliery . Mcnsures are being taken to minimise the danger , and a portion of the roadway has boon closed . At Lower Race , near ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1929
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 770 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

PROGRESS AT THE HAGUE. Principle of Sanctions. FRANCO-GERMAN PACT REPORT. The Hague, Sunday* A tentative ..

... Xontunes of the company. Already South Celynon Colliery, at Abercarn, has been restarted, and this will followed by Six Bells Colliery, at Abertillery. Three thousand six hundred mea will be re-employed. The company controls twenty-one collieries, with ...

Published: Monday 06 January 1930
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TWO DIE, FORTY TRAPPED IN Officials fear gas poisoning

... were killed and between T forty and fifty miners are believed trapped underground after an ex- plosion to-day at the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Monmouthshire. The dead men were Dennis Lane, a young fitter, of Six Bells, and P. J. Watkins. Miners ...

Published: Tuesday 28 June 1960
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

45 MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION Rescuers dig through roof fall in Monmouthshire pit FOUR SURVIVORS BADLY BURNED

... fall in Monmouthshire pit FOUR SURVIVORS BADLY BURNED Forty-five miners were killed in an explosion and roof fall in Six Bells Colliery, near Abertillery, Monmouthshire, yesterday. A representative of the National Coal Board announced soon after midnight ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 454 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

45 BODIES TAKEN FROM PIT On-the-spot inquiry to be held

... tired-eyed stretcher-bearers yesterday brought up the last of the 45 men killed in Tuesday’s disaster 1000 feet down in the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Monmouthshire. By mid-afternoon, 38 of the bodies had been brought.up. Not all had been identified. The ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PIT INQUIRY DATE FIXED

... PIT INQUIRY DATE FIXED The public inquiry into the explosion at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire, on June 28, in which 45 men died, will open at Newport on September 19, the Ministry of Power announced yesterday. ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: 3 | Tags: none