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A contemporary engraving depicting the result of a disastrous explosion in 1869 at Bryn-mawr in South Wales. A young boy called Evan Evans had gone into a warehouse to fetch some gunpowder for a customer of Messrs Watkins' grocery business. He unwisely took a lighted candle with him, and was killed, along with several others, when the powder was ignited by the flame.
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