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The Universal Pit Disaster at Senghenydd: A Group of Children Waiting for News

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From the South Wales Police Museum Photographic Collection. The Senghenydd colliery disaster occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913. The explosion, which killed 439 miners and a rescuer, is the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom

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