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The Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of 1913, the worst mining accident in British history; the 81 lives lost in an earlier pit explosion at Senghenydd in 1901; and acts as a national memorial to all of the dead of the 152 mining disasters that have occurred in Wales.
The funeral of one of the miners, E. Gilbert, a colour sergeant in The Salvation Army The firefighters built bashings, walls of sandbags, turf and sand, approximately 18 feet (5.5 metres) deep and 17 feet (5.2 metres) up to the tunnel's roof to prevent smoke filling the rest of the workings and allow men to explore areas previously cut off.
The family held a high-profile funeral in Porthcawl which was attended by many prominent figures from the entertainment industry and was videoed. [22] His coffin was carried by Boy George , Jayce Lewis [ 23 ] [ 24 ] and Spandau Ballet brothers Martin and Gary Kemp ; the funeral concluded with a burial at Jubilee Gardens Cemetery. [ 25 ]
Derrick Ward Sr., a reporter at NBC4 Washington, died Tuesday from complications after a recent cardiac arrest, his family confirmed.
The tragic death of a 28-year-old newscaster in Arizona has left colleagues devastated. Ana Orsini, a co-anchor at CBS affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson, died last week of a brain aneurysm.Orsini's ...
Caerphilly County Borough is in southeast Wales and straddles the border between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.It is bordered by Cardiff to the southwest, Newport to the southeast, Torfaen to the east, Blaenau Gwent to the northeast, Powys to the north, Merthyr Tydfil to the northwest and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the west.
Caerphilly County Borough straddles the boundary of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire in South Wales. The 46 scheduled monuments include burial cairns from the Bronze Age, an Iron Age hillfort, and Roman camps. The medieval sites include two castles and a further four mottes as well as dwellings, crosses and churches.
Terrence Lionel Seymour Higgins was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 10 June 1945. His mother, Majorie, was a nurse and the oldest of nine children; she died in 1974. [3] His father was not listed on his birth certificate and has never been identified. [4]