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CLASHES OTFIRING METHODS Miners say coal dust

... asked about searching nem for ceioraband. Mr Stokes said he Was oPh•red to make • - ,map'• searchei. Mr ltichankon: — No searches ‘‘ere earrivil oatt filen May r.ith Mita the disaster. were they Stokes: • 1 made snap searches but I made nu record of them ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1960
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

( i iTT i''•Jlyj \ ) Nation sympathy stirred by news from Mx Bells

... ( i \ ) Nation sympathy stirred by news from Mx Bells As reported last week, the Six Bells pit disaster stirred deep sympathy throughout Great Britain and in many other.parts of the world. The earliest messages to arrive included letters and telegrams ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1960
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 237 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Monmouthshire Mirror

... there is a disaster of any size, the outside world does not hear of the deaths in the pits. It is no uncommon thing in the local paper to read of a miner crushed by a tram or killed by a fall of coal. At the time of the big Abercarn disaster a contemporary ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1959
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1235 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

sal,- ivisional was alt _ Lband cause the of the extenother nte •nerally this cou!d said seriotv ig of a

... to account I explosion in 010, where lielieved the disaster origina If this was true the es followed the pattern o f others. where issues of gas. in themselves. had combil if you rodus , e disaster. The hut • g gas could ha' ignited by a hanging flame ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1960
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1327 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THIS WA: THE NEWS THEN }'reps into the past

... wife, won many prizes for solos and duets. Composing anthems and glees, however, was his chief joy. When the Cllfynydd pit disaster occurred. he had a rentarkable escape. This prompted him to write, From the depths I cried unto Thee, later to be sung ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1968
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1228 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

morn.O Jocourag I tho of twont ,nts that demon- ~ nth Wales iefl, l i ette itt„. hot d Newport

... child- IT was reported yesterday out and the mother. day) that the Six bel • .1 to fainting. Disaster F u nd had r attention. 1.54,01 .11 . Full details are pit Ali' Williams . of daily in the ••Western Mail ant,.glo. said that South Wales Echo. when ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1960
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 876 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Webb, Bevan (rep. on' were expressed by Mr Len families beivanel in the West. Ed . I. president, at Abertillery Getman pit disaster of a re- resenting die Sheehan, lives Chur c h), st a i ns Baptist Mounters at the were: A ictorut Rood, said the roads ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1963
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 2674 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

This was 1950 gliaheßeYv:

... the Tillery Institute. Memorial services were held, and glowing tributes were paid to the local victims of the Llandow air disaster. April: At. a meeting of the Ahertillery Trades Council the applications of Councillors Francis Yemm, Oswald Trills, and ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1950
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1846 | Page: 4 | Tags: none