Six Bells mining disaster

Six Bells mining disaster
  • TRAGEDY: The Argus front page of June 29, 1960, reporting the Six Bells colliery disaster.
  • An artist's impression of the memorial
  • MEMORIAL: The partially completed statue in Six Bells
  • DOUBLE LOSS: Kenneth Morgan lost his father and his brother in the explosion at the colliery.
  • MEMORIES: George Crandon, 75 of Richmond Road, Six Bells, lost his father,father Thomas George Crandon, on the fateful day.
  • ANXIOUS WAIT: The scene outside the colliery while the search for survivors went on.
  • Miners pictured during the disaster.
  • George Crandon's father Thomas George Crandon, bottom right, in 1959 with fellow miners.
  • Miners walking towards Six Bells pit on the day of the disaster as crowds look on.
  • People gathered outside the pit wait anxiously for news
  • The Abertillery District Brass band perform at the commemoration of the Six Bells.
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams in front of the memorial.
  • SOME of the crowd gathered to remember the miners killed in the Six Bells disaster.
  • The choirs of Cwm, Beaufort and Abertillery at the memorial ceremony.
  • Cliff Lewis age 82 of Nantyglo who survived the Six Bells mining disaster.
  • CROWDS walk up the hill to the Six Bells memorial
  • Nancy Presdee of Nantyglo who lost a brother, George Crandon and George's son, Don meet the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.
  • Mary Rees, 86 (second left) lost her husband Frederick, with her family.

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