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Mining disasters remembered at centre

Mar 18 2008 by Wendy Horton, South Wales Echo

A CENTRE dedicated to Britain’s worst mining disaster is to be reopened to the public next month following a makeover.

Thanks to money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Heritage Room at Senghenydd Community Centre has been modernised with a digital archive of information on the two huge tragedies to hit Senghenydd Universal Colliery.

In 1913 the colliery lost 440 men and boys. There had been another disaster in 1901. The special centre opened in 1991 thanks to work by former headteachers, the late Basil Phillips and David Parry.

Both historians helped research the names of two generations of miners who lost their lives to the disasters.

The rededication ceremony will now take place on Friday, April 4, at 7pm attended by radio and TV personality Roy Noble.

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