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DISASTER FUND

... DISASTER FUND The Six Bells Colliery Disaster Fund sponsored by the Western Mail and the South Wales Echo. now totals £83.6104 ed. ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1960
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 22 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DISASTER FUND

... DISASTER FUND The Six Bells colliery disaster fund. sponsored by the Western Mail and South Wales Echo. has now reached £50.384. and contributions continue to come is ...

Published: Friday 22 July 1960
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIRE AT A COAL PIT

... FIRE AT A COAL PIT Desperate Efforts to Avert Explosion While 700 men were working underground in the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, yesterday, fire broke out in the fan house. The men were got out safely after desperate efforts by the colliery and ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Distressed

... (Lancashire) in which 19 miners were killed and 19 injured. I The last major pit accident in South Wales was at the Six Bells colliery in June, 1960, in which 45 miners died. L ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1962
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Boy's body in

... made a statement. £102,456 PIT FUND The fund to provide for the families of 43 miners killed in a pit explosion at the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Monmouthshire. last June, has closed at £102.436 ...

Published: Tuesday 18 April 1961
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CABINET MEETS AGAIN

... yesterday that the Mon mouth shire miners are handing strike notices very reluctantly. Out 2,800 men employed at the Six Bells Colliery, Abertillerv, only 1,115 have tendered their notices, while the 3,110 men the Tillery Collieries only 2,221 have handed ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1920
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COLLIERY ACCIDENTS

... accident is thought to be due to the accumulation of gas. An accident occurred on Saturday at the new sinking pets at Six Bells Colliery, near Abertillery, belonging to Messrs. John Lancaster and Co. About noon a Sang of four men descended the shah, and ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1895
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SHOPPING BY PUNT

... torrential downpours at Aberbeeg (Mon.), landslide is feared between the main road to Six Bells end the railway line near Six Bells Colliery. Meatures are being takf>n to minimis© the danzer, and a portion the been closed. At the lower race near Ponypool a ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1929
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EIGHT KILLED, 8 INJURED IN PIT EXPLOSION

... Burnley, Lance, in which 19 miners were killed and 19 injured. The last major pit accident in South Wales was at the Six Bells Colliery in June. 1960, in which 45 miners died. Only men who knew the room and pillar workings of the pit were allowed to go ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1962
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE GREATEST OF ALL TONICS FOR

... the fortunes the company. Already South Oelynen Colliery at Aberc&m has been restarted, and this will be followed by Six Bells Colliery AhertiHery almost immediately. When these are going 3,000 men will be re-employed in the areas concerned. The company ...

Published: Tuesday 07 January 1930
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Last night's TV on 1 and 9

... Anthony Finegan. It suggests newcomer Finegan is an acquisition. H.M. Colliery fund now almost £29,000 Donations for the Six Bells Colliery Disaster Fund. sponsored by the We'tern Mail ar.d the South Wales Echo. pouring in from all parts of Britain and abroad ...

Published: Tuesday 12 July 1960
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

David Bellamy in Blue Peter. BBC-1, 5.10

... trees. And there's a chance to see the incredible 260-million-year-old tree discovered a thousand feet below ground at Six Bells Colliery, Gwent. IN THE second last edition of Space Oddity (BBC-1, 7.4s).postponed from last week, entitled Earthwoman, the ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1982
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 6 | Tags: none