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The Gresford disaster occurred on 22 September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, when an explosion and underground fire killed 261 men.Gresford is one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters: a controversial inquiry into the disaster did not conclusively identify a cause, though evidence suggested that failures in safety procedures and poor mine management were contributory factors.
When the colliery first opened it was named Glan-yr-Afon (English: Riverside) Colliery.Operated by Bersham Coal Company, the first shaft was sunk in 1864 on the site of a brickworks immediately adjacent to the Shrewsbury to Chester railway line, however due to difficulties the pit did not reach the main coal seams and the site was left abandoned until 1871 when the pit was deepened by new ...
Wrexham is on the edge of the rich Ruabon area marl beds [11] and several brickworks sprang up in the area, among these, the most well known was Wrexham Brick and Tile and Davies Brothers in Abenbury, on the outskirts of Wrexham. Coal mining was an important industry in the area, and provided employment for large numbers of Wrexham people ...
Districts of the mine were gradually reopened, although the Dennis district, where the explosion occurred remained sealed. [2] Coal production restarted in January 1936, and by 1945 there were 1,743 men employed. [2] Gresford was officially closed on 10 November 1973 due to a combination of exhaustion of existing coal reserves and geological ...
In the mid-nineteenth century, much deeper pits were established and a network of railways was built in the Wrexham area to transport the coal. [ 2 ] A report on the North Wales Coalfield in the 1950s found that the reserves of coal were running low and that in the Denbighshire Coalfield, the geology of the coal-bearing strata dipped rapidly ...
Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are putting Wrexham’s coal mining industry at the forefront when designing a new stadium for the Wrexham football club. “It was always in the plans when we ...
The Moss Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Moss, pronounced [ˌdəfrɨ̞n ˈmɔs]; Welsh pronunciation ⓘ) is an area and country park in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The area, informally known as "The Moss" and The Aggey by local people, has an extensive coal mining history. [1]
The North Wales Coalfield is divided into the Flintshire Coalfield to the north and the nearly contiguous Denbighshire Coalfield to the south. [1] The Flintshire Coalfield extends from the Point of Ayr in the north, through Connah's Quay to Caergwrle in the south and under the Dee Estuary to the Neston area of the Wirral Peninsula.