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Universal Colliery in 1913

Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county borough of Caerphilly, traditionally in the county of Glamorgan, Wales.

Started in 1891, it became a ventilation facility for the Windsor Colliery in 1928 before complete closure in 1988.

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Universal Colliery

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Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county...

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Senghenydd colliery disaster

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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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South Wales Coalfield

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Albion Colliery in Cilfynydd exploded in 1894 causing 276 deaths. In the 20th century there were numerous further fatal accidents. The Universal Colliery in...

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Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden

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National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of...

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Senghenydd

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urbanised in the 1890s, when the Universal and Windsor collieries were sunk in this region. The Universal Colliery at Senghenydd suffered the first of...

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Albion Colliery

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Albion Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales Valleys, located in the village of Cilfynydd, one mile north of Pontypridd. The Colliery was located along...

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Mining accident

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Senghenydd Colliery Disaster at Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, Glamorgan, in a gas explosion in 1913. 290 deaths at the Albion Colliery in Cilfynydd...

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Mining in Wales

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its place) Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, site of the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster; converted to a ventilation facility for Windsor Colliery and then...

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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll

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2016. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2010. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh...

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Cilfynydd

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disaster in the South Wales Coalfield, after the later disaster at the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd in 1913. At four o'clock on Saturday, June 23, 1894...

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Windsor Colliery

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was raised in 1902, with the workings connected underground to the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd for ventilation purposes. The mine was serviced by the...

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1913

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series in five games. October 14 – Senghenydd colliery disaster: An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales kills 439 miners, the...

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Rhondda Heritage Park

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sunk the Lady Lewis Colliery one mile (1.6 km) to the north east in the Rhondda Fach. In 1905 the company acquired Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, which...

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1901

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Exchange crashes. May 24 – 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd in South Wales. May 25 – The Club Atlético River Plate...

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Rhymney Railway

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South Wales, founded to transport minerals and materials to and from collieries and ironworks in the Rhymney Valley of South Wales, and to docks in Cardiff...

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Coal industry in Wales

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pits closed in spite of a UK-wide strike against closures. Aberpergwm Colliery is the last deep mine in Wales. The South Wales Coalfield was not the only...

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May 1901

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office. Eighty-one coal miners were killed in an accident at the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd in South Wales. Officials at the Royal Academy of Music...

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Timeline of Welsh history

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Abercarn Colliery disaster anniversary". BBC News. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2019. "Photo Archive: North Risca Blackvein Colliery – The 1880...

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This Sweet and Bitter Earth

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break from her. He decides to leave the Rhondda and seek work at Universal Colliery in Senghennydd, which is not on strike. He finds that Ben has been...

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Billy Elliot

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Easington Colliery area, with the producers using over 400 locals as extras. The mining scenes were filmed at the Ellington and Lynemouth Colliery in Northumberland...

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October 1913

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British history, 439 coal miners were killed in the explosion of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, Wales. At 6:00 a.m., 935 miners went underground into...

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1901 in Wales

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in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd. 10 September – Twelve miners are killed in a mining accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan. 9 November...

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1913 in Wales

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Teddy Evans. 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in...

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Dinnington Colliery Band

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The Dinnington Colliery Band is a traditional British brass band from Yorkshire, England, founded in 1904 and also known as the Dinnington Main and Middleton...

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Stiletto

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Regulations, publ. Edwin L. Jewell (1882), p. 326 Rood, Henry E., A Pennsylvania Colliery Village, The Century Magazine, Vol. 55 No. 6 (April 1898), p. 815 Watkins...

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Decca Records

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half of what is now UMG (Universal Music Group). Both UK and US divisions of the former Decca label are now part of Universal Music Group. The name dates...

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