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Gresford Pit Volunteers

Date released

11 Feb 1935

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

479

NoS ID

141219

Story no

8 / 11

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Prepared for descent.

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Terrible Price, The - Gresford 1934 (2006)

Director

Martin Smith

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (60 minutes), £15.99

A documentary about the Gresford (Wrexham) mining disaster of 1934. Shown on the 70th anniversary of the disaster on BBC in Wales only, this film tells the story of a man-made tragedy which cost the lives of...

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Death Pit Drama - Exclusive Pictures

Date released

7 Mar 1935

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

486

NoS ID

141296

Story no

11 / 11

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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79 Killed in Mine Disaster

Date released

12 May 1938

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

752

NoS ID

035928

Story no

2 / 8

Extras

1 shot list

Tragic scenes at pithead follow explosion in worst colliery disaster since Gresford.

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Welsh Mine Horror

Date released

24 Sep 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

373

NoS ID

033469

Story no

2 / 5

Two hundred feared dead. Scenes at Gresford Colliery where worst mine disaster for twenty-one years entombed four hundred workers in early morning explosion.

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Pit-Blast Inquiry Opens

Date released

29 Oct 1934

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

383

NoS ID

033527

Story no

6 / 7

Probing causes of Gresford mine disaster. Government officials seek cause of appalling explosion that cost 264 lives. The way to safety Prior to inquiry: Mr Joseph Jones, Miners’ Federation.

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Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

Director

Philip Leacock

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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