Mining Disasters List

Tools carved to scale by H Williams of Llanhilleth

A website for a social club seems a strange place to find 110 year old history, but I found it a very good site for those interested in the coal mining industry of the UK.

The "Mining Disasters" page provides some harrowing statistics and should help us appreciate the development of the modern world, which would not have been built without the sacrifice of men working underground, sometimes never seeing daylight for months on end.  Also, their wives who, with no running water, washed and cleaned using only a coal fire to boil kettles of water, and a tin bath to wash.

 http://www.florencesportsandsocial.com/page17.htm

Adding a new ring to the roof of a coal mine - painting by
H Williams, Llanhilleth