This is in the Memory of
Joseph Anders .. Aged 27 a Beltman of 17 Empress Road Wrexham
Whos's life was tragically taken as the price for coal at Gresford Colliery.
The Gresford colliery disaster is one of the most horrific Mining Disasters that I can remember my late Grandfather talking about as it was close to his Birthplace in North Wales.
A sad day for many families in the North Wales mining community as at around 2 am on the 22nd of September 1934 in the Dennis part of the Mine, there was an explosion which then resulted in what was described as a "wall of fire".
The lifes of 266 miners were lost and it was impossible to recover their bodies due to the immense dangers from fire, subsequent explosions, and noxious gases.
8 bodies were recovered but on the following day the 23rd of Sept all men involved in the rescue operations were withdrawn from the mine and the mine shaft was sealed off with all that perished on this fatefull day being entombed in their place of work.
Only 6 men working in the Dennis part of the mine survived this terrible disaster these were Ted Andrew, Cyril Challinor, Thomas Fisher,Davy Jones Burt Samuels and Jack Samuels.
Coal Mining was later to continue in a different section at Gresford Colliery until 1973 although the Dennis part of the mine was never opened up again.
I distinctly remember my Grandfather telling me that one of the reasons for so many being at work that fateful night
was some were doubling up on the shift so they could go to a Local football match between Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers that Saturday afternoon.
And also that a few days after the mine was sealed that there was a huge explosion that blew the seal of the shaft and upon research I found that a rescue worker lost his life on the surface due to this explosion.
Joseph Anders .. Aged 27 a Beltman of 17 Empress Road Wrexham
Whos's life was tragically taken as the price for coal at Gresford Colliery.
The Gresford colliery disaster is one of the most horrific Mining Disasters that I can remember my late Grandfather talking about as it was close to his Birthplace in North Wales.
A sad day for many families in the North Wales mining community as at around 2 am on the 22nd of September 1934 in the Dennis part of the Mine, there was an explosion which then resulted in what was described as a "wall of fire".
The lifes of 266 miners were lost and it was impossible to recover their bodies due to the immense dangers from fire, subsequent explosions, and noxious gases.
8 bodies were recovered but on the following day the 23rd of Sept all men involved in the rescue operations were withdrawn from the mine and the mine shaft was sealed off with all that perished on this fatefull day being entombed in their place of work.
Only 6 men working in the Dennis part of the mine survived this terrible disaster these were Ted Andrew, Cyril Challinor, Thomas Fisher,Davy Jones Burt Samuels and Jack Samuels.
Coal Mining was later to continue in a different section at Gresford Colliery until 1973 although the Dennis part of the mine was never opened up again.
I distinctly remember my Grandfather telling me that one of the reasons for so many being at work that fateful night
was some were doubling up on the shift so they could go to a Local football match between Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers that Saturday afternoon.
And also that a few days after the mine was sealed that there was a huge explosion that blew the seal of the shaft and upon research I found that a rescue worker lost his life on the surface due to this explosion.
This is in the Memory of
Joseph Anders .. Aged 27 a Beltman of 17 Empress Road Wrexham
Whos's life was tragically taken as the price for coal at Gresford Colliery.
The Gresford colliery disaster is one of the most horrific Mining Disasters that I can remember my late Grandfather talking about as it was close to his Birthplace in North Wales.
A sad day for many families in the North Wales mining community as at around 2 am on the 22nd of September 1934 in the Dennis part of the Mine, there was an explosion which then resulted in what was described as a "wall of fire".
The lifes of 266 miners were lost and it was impossible to recover their bodies due to the immense dangers from fire, subsequent explosions, and noxious gases.
8 bodies were recovered but on the following day the 23rd of Sept all men involved in the rescue operations were withdrawn from the mine and the mine shaft was sealed off with all that perished on this fatefull day being entombed in their place of work.
Only 6 men working in the Dennis part of the mine survived this terrible disaster these were Ted Andrew, Cyril Challinor, Thomas Fisher,Davy Jones Burt Samuels and Jack Samuels.
Coal Mining was later to continue in a different section at Gresford Colliery until 1973 although the Dennis part of the mine was never opened up again.
I distinctly remember my Grandfather telling me that one of the reasons for so many being at work that fateful night
was some were doubling up on the shift so they could go to a Local football match between Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers that Saturday afternoon.
And also that a few days after the mine was sealed that there was a huge explosion that blew the seal of the shaft and upon research I found that a rescue worker lost his life on the surface due to this explosion.
Joseph Anders .. Aged 27 a Beltman of 17 Empress Road Wrexham
Whos's life was tragically taken as the price for coal at Gresford Colliery.
The Gresford colliery disaster is one of the most horrific Mining Disasters that I can remember my late Grandfather talking about as it was close to his Birthplace in North Wales.
A sad day for many families in the North Wales mining community as at around 2 am on the 22nd of September 1934 in the Dennis part of the Mine, there was an explosion which then resulted in what was described as a "wall of fire".
The lifes of 266 miners were lost and it was impossible to recover their bodies due to the immense dangers from fire, subsequent explosions, and noxious gases.
8 bodies were recovered but on the following day the 23rd of Sept all men involved in the rescue operations were withdrawn from the mine and the mine shaft was sealed off with all that perished on this fatefull day being entombed in their place of work.
Only 6 men working in the Dennis part of the mine survived this terrible disaster these were Ted Andrew, Cyril Challinor, Thomas Fisher,Davy Jones Burt Samuels and Jack Samuels.
Coal Mining was later to continue in a different section at Gresford Colliery until 1973 although the Dennis part of the mine was never opened up again.
I distinctly remember my Grandfather telling me that one of the reasons for so many being at work that fateful night
was some were doubling up on the shift so they could go to a Local football match between Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers that Saturday afternoon.
And also that a few days after the mine was sealed that there was a huge explosion that blew the seal of the shaft and upon research I found that a rescue worker lost his life on the surface due to this explosion.
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