The Gresford Disaster - Sept 22nd 1934

[TedRob1958]

Why the Irish music?



[msmousette]

@TedRob1958 Hi TedRob, The site where I found it says that it was composed by a Welsh Head Teacher in Flint, specifically to accompany the Welsh teaching materials about the disaster.

[TedRob1958]

My nain lost five cousins in this disaster, she also discovered that she had an older sister she'd never met when the names were published in the Yorkshire Post and her name was given as a contact for grieving relatives. You cannot scratch many Welsh people North or South without striking coal. My great grandad died in Black Park, Chirk. I have many uncles who worked in the north Wales and Staffordshire coalfields and have a great uncle who died in the Naomi mine disaster in Phillidelphea 1906.

[415vids]

sub me its sam :)

[reubthebabe]

@4llPro You kiddin' me bro?

[reubthebabe]

Wow, I really appreciate the help with my school work, thanks :3

[msmousette]

aishamehmood That's great! :-) Check the info under the video. There are links to brilliant Welsh education web site where I found the music for the soundtrack and some of the images.

[CarysandOwain]

Beautiful. I complained bitterly when they dropped the winding gear at the colliery and moved it to the colliery club. The ground around the pit area is sacred.

God all those who lost their lives.

[shropshirebloke]

@msmousette - it's on cassette tape, but a very clean Dolby C/HXpro recording of a high-quality VHF stereo broadcast. My biggest problem will be finding it!!

[alunhughes147]

Really well done....sent shivers running through me.....haunting.....thanks for this,,,,regards from the South

[msmousette]

@alunhughes147 It spooks me too! Best wishes, Lizzie

[alunhughes147]

@msmousette Thanks Lizzie.....l worked in the coal mines of South Wales for 25 years and like you good people up in the North , we are used to these disasters........l worked with men who had lost friends and brothers in the Cambrian explosion in the Rhondda in 1965 and , of course , all of us in Wales will never forget the name of Aberfan....its name is scorched into our souls forever.....,.....thanks for the video and best regards from the South of our beloved land

[shropshirebloke]

Somewhere I've got a recording of an hour-long Radio 4 documentary made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Gresford Disaster - if I can find it and figure out how I'll put it on here.

As already mentioned, it makes it very clear that witnesses were too frightened to tell the truth - for months before the disaster false records had been made about the conditions in the Denis Seam where the explosion occurred.

Listen to "Gresford" on here

[msmousette]

@shropshirebloke Thanks Shropshire bloke. Is it on tape or digital? If digital then you just need one image to turn it into a "video".

[MrTNA11001]

This is sooo sad : ' ( It makes me cry all the time i watch it!

[msmousette]

@MrTNA11001 It is very sad. I posted some related videos that explain that the miners who survived were too frightened by the mine-owners to tell what they knew about why the explosion happened. That will make you angry. It didn't need to happen. It was all due to the greed of the mine-owners.

[joelwhitaker]

@msmousette correct.......the pit owner ignored warning and his pit managers. My family on my mothers side worked the Llay Main Colliery not far away and were down the Pit when it took place. they felt it and came to the surface. Loads of men from the working shift at Llay Main went to Gresford but they couldn't do a thing.

[msmousette]

@society7198 Spammer!

[Chauffeur1]

Excellant collage that is henanced of course by the audio recording....pleased to reciprocate with my own collage of the disaster....

[msmousette]

@Chauffeur1 Cheers Chauffeur. I have managed to download and convert the BBC News story so will upload that one too.

Lizzie