Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
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Welsh National and Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden
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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 garden was opened in 2013, the centenary of the 1913 event. In March 2024 Cadw added the garden to its C
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Memorial garden in Caerphilly, Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_National_and_Universal_Mining_Disaster_Memorial_Garden
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2024-03-28T12:00:54Z
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