In Loving Memory
of the
3508 MINERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
in

COLLIERY DISASTERS

IN NORTH WALES, SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE
DURING THE PAST 90 YEARS *

      Killed         Killed
1837 May 10th Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold 21   1877 March 8th Worcester Pit, Swansea 18
1837 June 17th Blaina (Mon.) 21   1878 September 1st Abercarn 62
1844 January 1st Dinas 12   1878 September 11th Abercarn u 268
1845 August 2nd Cwmbach 28   1879 January 13th Dinas 3
1846 January 14th Risca u 35   1879 September 22nd Waunllwyd, Ebbw Vale 84
1848 June 21st Victoria (Mon.) 11   1880 July 15th Risca u 119
1849 August 11th Letty Shenkin, Aberdare 52   1880 December 10th Naval Steam Colliery 96
1850 December 14th New Duffryn Colliery 13   1882 January 15th Risca u 4
1852 May 10th Duffryn 64   1882 February 11th Coedcae 6
1853 March 12th Risca Vale u 10   1883 February 1st Coedcae 5
1856 July 13th Cymmer 114   1883 August 21st Gelli 4
1858 October 13th Duffryn 20   1884 January 16th Cwmavon 10
1859 April 5th Neath Chain Colliery 26   1884 January 28th Penygraig 11
1860 December 1st Risca u 146   1884 November 8th Pochin Colliery, Tredegar 14
1862 February 19th Gethin, Merthyr 47   1885   Naval Colliery 14
1863 October 17th Margam 39   1885 December 24th Mardy 81
1863 December 24th Maesteg 14   1887 February 18th Ynyshir 37
1865 June 16th Tredegar 2   1888 May 14th Aber. Tynewydd 5
1865 December 20th Upper Gethin 30   1890 January 20th Glyn Pit, Pontypool 5
1867 November 8th Ferndale 178   1890 February 6th Llanerch 176
1869 May 23rd Llanerch 7   1890 March 8th Morfa 87
1869 June 10th Ferndale 60   1892 August 12th Great Western Colliery 58
1870 July 23rd Llansamlet 19   1892 August 26th Park Slip 110
1871 February 24th Pentre 38   1894 June 25th Cilfynydd 276
1871 October 4th Gelli Pit, Aberdare 4   1896 January 28th Tylorstown 57
1872 January 10th Oakwood, Llynvi Valley 11   1899 August 18th Llest Colliiery, Garw 19
1872 March 2nd Victoria 19   1901 May 24th Sengenhydd 82
1872 March 8th Wernfach 18   1901 September 10th Llanbradach 12
1874 April 5th Abertillery 6   1905 March 10th Clydach Vale 31
1874 July 24th Charles Pit, Llansamlet 19   1905 July 5th Wattstown 119
1875 December 4th New Tredegar 22   1913 October 13th Senghenydd 436
1875 December 5th Llan Pit, Pentyrch 12   1923 April 26th Trimsaran 9
1876 December 13th Abertillery 20   1927 March 1st Cwm, Ebbw Vale 52
                 
                 


A sudden change; at God's command they fell ;
They had no chance to bid their friends farewell ;
Swift came the blast, without a warning given,
And bid them haste to meet their God in Heaven.

  Colliery Location
u Blackvein Crosskeys
u North Risca Crosskeys
u Prince of Wales Abercarn

* This web page is a copy of a print first published in 1927

"The horrific series of large-scale mining disasters which rocked South Wales during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries inevitably grab our attention more than day-to-day occurences, but it
should be remembered that about four fifths of deaths in coal mining occurred in single isolated accidents."

The People of Wales - Edited by Gareth Elwyn Jones and Dai Smith.

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