The Cymmer Colliery explosion occurred in the early morning of 15 July 1856 at the Old Pit mine of the Cymmer Colliery near Porth (lower Rhondda Valley)...
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Cymer or Cymmer may refer to: Cymer Abbey a Cistercian abbey in Wales Cymmer Colliery explosion, a mining accident in the Rhondda Valley in 1856 There...
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The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Welsh: Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd...
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Mining accident (redirect from Mine explosion)
1908: Maypole Colliery disaster in Abram, Greater Manchester, England. 75 men and boys died. November 28, 1908: Marianna mine explosion near Marianna...
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Porth (section Tynewydd Colliery disaster)
extended to Cymmer replacing the tramline, allowing direct access between the lower Rhondda and the ports of Cardiff. In 1850 the Troedyrhiw Colliery (later...
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at Cymmer. Several collieries were sunk in the vicinity, namely Cymmer Colliery (Old No. 1 Pit) (1847), Glynfach Colliery (1851), New Cymmer Colliery (1855)...
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dead link] "WALLSEND COLLIERY EXPLOSION – WALLSEND – 1835". Northern Mines Research Society. Retrieved 18 April 2023. "Naval Colliery disasters". Welsh Coal...
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Dinas Rhondda (section The colliery)
are Penygraig, Trealaw, Tonypandy, Cymmer and Porth. Dinas is the site of Dinas Lower (Dinas Isaf/Dinas Ishaf) Colliery, sunk by Walter Coffin in 1812 as...
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oldest in Rhondda is the Lewis-Merthyr Band, formerly Cymmer Colliery Band, founded as the Cymmer Military Band in or before 1855. As the temperance movement...
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James Harvey Insole (section Cymmer disaster)
(Rhondda) Explosion". "The Terrible Accident at Cymmer". The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. 26 July 1856. p. 5. Retrieved 19 December 2019. "Cymmer Colliery Explosion"...
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the result of the Cymmer Colliery explosion at the Old Pit mine of the Cymmer Colliery near Porth, Wales. The underground explosion of gas resulted in...
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and in 1896 fifty-seven men and boys were killed in a gas explosion at the Tylorstown Colliery. An enquiry found that the pit involved had not been properly...
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July – Natal becomes a Crown Colony. 15 July – an underground explosion at the Cymmer Colliery in the Rhondda kills 114 men and boys. 29 July – Education...
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conditions, resulting in injuries and deaths, several due to rock falls and explosions. By 1887, the tunnelling had slowed to 70 yards (64 m) per month which...
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pit became known as the Britannic Merthyr Colliery. In 1907 an explosion occurred at the Dinas Main Colliery. Seven men were killed, while others escaped...
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susceptible to explosions and prominent figures such as Thomas Price, called for the introduction of mines' inspectors who would visit collieries on a regular...
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