Mining disasters memorial outside Nant y Parc Primary School, Senghenydd
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Mining disasters memorial outside Nant y Parc Primary School, Senghenydd
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 27 Apr 2012
The school http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2920390 occupies part of the site of the former Universal Colliery. The memorial commemorates the colliery disaster of 1901 when 81 men were killed, and the October 1913 disaster, which killed 439 men.
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Image Location
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51.610818
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-3.282355