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Coal Mines in Wales

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230530697
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Coal Mines in Wales written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Coal mining disasters in Wales, Abersychan, Abercarn, Gresford disaster, Aberfan disaster, Gresford Colliery, Mardy Colliery, List of collieries in the Rhondda Valleys, Mostyn Colliery, Tower Colliery, Clydach Vale, South Wales Coalfield, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Ffos-y-fran, Cefn Coed Colliery Museum, Wattstown, Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Six Bells Colliery, Point of Ayr, Lady Windsor Colliery, Penallta Colliery, Big Pit National Coal Museum, Penygraig, Albion Colliery, Nantgarw Colliery, Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Pentremawr Colliery, Abercynon Colliery, Cynheidre Colliery, Park Slip colliery, Oakdale Colliery, Cymmer, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Cambrian Colliery, Universal Colliery, Nine Mile Point Colliery, Aberpergwm, Llancaiach Colliery, Wyllie Colliery. Excerpt: The Gresford Disaster was one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters and mining accidents. It occurred on September 22, 1934 at Gresford Colliery near Wrexham, in north-east Wales, when 266 men died. Only eleven bodies were ever recovered from the mine. Work began sinking the pit at Gresford in 1908 by the United Westminster & Wrexham Collieries. Two shafts were sunk, the Dennis (named after the pit's owners, the industrialist Dennis family of Ruabon) and the Martin, which were 50 yards (46 m) apart. Work was completed in 1911; the mine was one of the deepest in the Denbighshire coalfield with the Dennis shaft reaching a depth of about 2,264 feet (690 m) and the Martin shaft about 2,252 feet (686 m). By 1934, 2,200 coal miners were employed at the colliery, with 1,850 working underground and 350 on the surface. Three seams were worked at Gresford, the Crank, Brassey, and Main seams. The accident would occur in the Dennis section of the Main seam. The Dennis section was itself divided into six "districts" the 20's, 61's, 109's, 14's and 29's...

Mining Disasters

Author : Clifford Obryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Mining Disasters written by Clifford Obryan and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What causes a mine to collapse? What is it called when a mine collapses? How Were The Chilean Miners Rescued 12 Review of Mine Disaster Prevention and Control Research Coal Mining Accidents And Deaths the tale of the biggest hard rock mining accident in America. Based on 600 pages of eye-witness testimony that was lost for 90 years, Ammons puts readers directly into the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana as a normal shift spiraled into a disaster.

Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980

Author : Brian Elliott
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473858860
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Book Synopsis Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980 by : Brian Elliott

Download or read book Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980 written by Brian Elliott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These haunting images, with well-researched facts, figures and timelines providing context, bring the bygone era of 20th-century coal mining to life.”—Family Tree Although everyday fatalities in mines was far greater, it was the disasters that encouraged those in power to reform the way in which miners had to work underground, especially with regard to safety. And it would be no exaggeration to say that it was the disasters that greatly contributed to bringing the coal industry into national control. Sadly, for bereaved individuals and families, nothing could really compensate for the loss of one or more of a loved one. The impact of the big disasters, where hundreds of men and boys—one or two generations—were lost, immediately, the impact was massive, and continued to be felt many years afterwards. New and restored disaster memorials bear testimony to the great respect that former mining communities continue to have for their “lost miners.” Using many previously unpublished images, and a carefully supportive text, the author provides a detailed overview of mining disasters in the modern era, from the early 1900s to the 1980s. It is the first book of its kind to attempt such a large project in pictorial form with a foreword by Ceri Thompson, curator of the Big Pit, the Welsh national mining museum. The book is published at a particularly poignant time, after the recent closure of Britain’s last deep coal mine. “So many remarkable photographs and drawings: The story may be tragic, but it is one that lies at the very heart of the history of coal mining in Britain.”—WDYTYA? magazine

Mine Disasters

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mine Disasters written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910

Author : Jack Nadin
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1903425956
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Lancashire Mining Disasters 1835-1910 written by Jack Nadin and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local mining communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830's through to 1910. It also recalls the great bravery of other miners, often from other pits in the recue attempts, who with no thought of their own safety went below ground to try and their fellow comrades. In doing so, they knew full well that they were risking their own lives, probably facing death. Such was the comradeship in coal mining communities. In no other industry would men grapple at rock and roof falls with bare hands, wade through flooded smoking underground galleries, or face further explosions and deadly suffocating gases in order to try and save their fellow colleagues. And while all this was ongoing, the pit banks filled with the old men, the grieving womenfolk and children, waiting for news of a loved one - a brother, a son, a husband from deep below in a silent hell. As each cage was raised to the pit bank, the crowd lunged forward hoping, perhaps beyond hope, that their loved one was safe. Little wonder there were no carols sung at Christmastide 1910, at Westhoughton and Atherton in South Lancashire for here, a few days before Christmas an explosion followed by a searing hot fiery blast tore through the workings of the Hulton Colliery Company's Pretoria Pit - and in doing so in just a few seconds took away the lives of over three hundred man and boys. This still holds the unwelcome record of the greatest single colliery explosion in English coalming history. It was coal the fulled the steam engines at mills, factories and foundriers which was to make Britain the greatest industrial nation in the world - but what a terrible price the miners paid in putting the 'Great' in Britain. This was the 'True Price of Coal'.

Illustrations Relating to South Wales (mining Disasters Etc)

Author : Graphic
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Illustrations Relating to South Wales (mining Disasters Etc) written by Graphic and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Mining Disasters

Author : Jane DeMarchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historical Mining Disasters written by Jane DeMarchi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

19th-Century Mining Disasters

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781230780184
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 19th-Century Mining Disasters written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, Abersychan, Albion Colliery, Astley Deep Pit Disaster, Bedford Colliery Disaster, Blantyre mining disaster, Brunner Mine disaster, Clifton Hall Colliery, Cymmer, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Drummond Mine explosion, Felling mine disaster, Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Ferndale Colliery, Great Western Mine, Hartley Colliery Disaster, Haswell, County Durham, Haydock, Holditch Colliery Disaster, Mardy Colliery, Mauricewood Colliery disaster, Oaks explosion, Parc Slip Colliery, Penygraig, Seaham Colliery, Springwell Pit Disaster, Trimdon Grange, Udston mining disaster, Wattstown. Excerpt: Mardy Colliery was a coal mine located in the South Wales village of Maerdy (Welsh: ), in the Rhondda Valley, located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. Opened in 1875, it closed in December 1990. Maerdy derives its name from a large farmhouse on a bank of the Rhondda Fach, which became the local meeting place for both court matters and worship. Maerdy is the Welsh word for mayor's house. While other areas of the South Wales coalfield had been exploited up to 50 years earlier, due to the scarcity and difficult access conditions of Rhondda Fawr, it remained largely undeveloped. But the demand for steam coal drove development and, in 1874, Mordecai Jones of Brecon and Nantmelyn purchased the mineral rights around the farmhouse and its surrounding lands from the estate of the late Crawshay Bailey for 122,000. Additional capital was provided by a partner, J. R. Cobb, and a trial pit was sunk in 1875. In 1876, this No. 1 Pit struck the Abergorky vein of coal. Proving the mine viable by increasing production to 100 tons per day, Maerdy No. 2 Pit was sunk in 1876. After connecting the mine to the Taff Vale Railway's Maerdy Branch, they transported the...

South Yorkshire Mining Disasters

Author : Brian Elliot
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1903425646
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book South Yorkshire Mining Disasters written by Brian Elliot and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britains worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

The House of Abraham Phillips

Author : Norma Procter
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291244824
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The House of Abraham Phillips written by Norma Procter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Abraham Phillips is a fictitious interpretation of the 1875 Lan Mine disaster in Gwaelod y Garth, South Wales. It is told through the mouth of Phillip Phillips, Abraham's second son. Haunted by his father's action, steeped in memories and the words of the Old Testament, Phillip Phillips, seeks resolution to his anguish. All of the characters in this story lived. The main incidents are part of recorded history. It is a story of stoical people, facing hard work and poverty. Against the backdrop of the beautiful Garth Mountain, they live with the hell of Victorian industry devastating the valley floor. The 1875 disaster was named as the worst mining disaster of the year. This story is a memorial to those who lost their lives in the winning of coal.

South Wales Mining Disasters

Author : David Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752435640
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book South Wales Mining Disasters written by David Owen and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of South Wales collieries vol 6

Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain, 1700 to the Present Day

Author : Helen Duckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain, 1700 to the Present Day written by Helen Duckham and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Valley of the Shadow

Author : John H. Brown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Valley of the Shadow written by John H. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Valleys of Tears

Author : Ray Lawrence
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Valleys of Tears written by Ray Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in the Mines; Explosions in Mines

Author : Alexander Macdonald
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Mines; Explosions in Mines written by Alexander Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aberfan

Author : Iain McLean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aberfan written by Iain McLean and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events at Aberfan on the morning of October 21 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults died in a sea of slurry following the collapse of a coal tip, will forever be etched in the memories of the people of the industrial valleys of south Wales.

To Punish or Persuade

Author : John Braithwaite
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791497372
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book To Punish or Persuade written by John Braithwaite and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Punish or Persuade, John Braithwaite declares that coal mine disasters are usually the result of corporate crime. He surveys 39 coal mine disasters from around the world, including 19 in the United States since 1960, and concludes that mine fatalities are usually not caused by human error or the unstoppable forces of nature. He shows that a combination of punitive and educative measures taken against offenders can have substantial effects in reducing injuries to miners. Braithwaite not only develops a model for determining the optimal mix of punishment and persuasion to maximize mine safety, but provides regulatory agencies in general with a model for mixing the two strategies to ensure compliance with the law. To Punish or Persuade looks at coal mine safety in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, France, Belgium, and Japan. It examines closely the five American coal mining companies with the best safety performance in the industry: U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Consolidation Coal Company, Island Creek Coal Company, and Old Ben Coal Company. It also takes a look at the safety record of unionized versus non-unionized mines and how safety regulation enforcement impacts productivity.