The Gresford Disaster - Sept 22nd 1934

Описание: Info about the video, images and music - please see lengthy note below.

Update Feb 2012:
There is an excellent BBC Radio4 programme about "Gresford - The Miners' Hymn" in the Souls Music series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01blj2b

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I made this slide show because, when I searched for the song "The Gresford Disaster", I was amazed how little information there seemed to be on the internet about the disaster itself.

The audio (original is about 17 minutes - very haunting and does not include the "Gresford - The Miners' Hymn") plus many of the photos are from the Welsh National Grid for Learning site: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl...

The music in the soundtrack was composed by Robert (Bob) Fox, Drama Teacher, then in Flintshire, North Wales. http://www.codeindigo.co.uk/robertfox/

Most of the other photos are from pages on the Wrexham website:
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/her...

I think that there might also be a couple of images from this website:
http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk

There is also a short BBC news story from a couple of years ago about "Mine disaster documents found - Historic documents uncovered by chance record the inquiry into the 1934 Gresford mining disaster" including an interview with possibly the last remaining survivor of the disaster:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/news...

I have never liked the song, "The Gresford Disaster". It is a bit too close too home and rather mixed up in my mind with Aberfan, which happened when I was at school in North Wales, and both events were rather terrifying as a child. That said, I have very happy memories of being a bell-ringer at Gresford church in my teens.

I hope this video is moving and informative and just a little bit terrifying, as it should be.

There are some other videos about The Gresford Disaster on YouTube already, some with the song as the soundtrack and with photos not included here.