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  1. Tragic Explosion in Welsh Colliery

    Date released
    24 Sep 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    277
    NoS ID
    001791
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tragic Explosion in Welsh Colliery. DESCRIPTION: A big explosion at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, in the early hours of the morning occurred when four hundred men were working below....

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  2. 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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  3. Tragic Explosion in Welsh Colliery

    Date released
    24 Sep 1934
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    277
    NoS ID
    005086
    Story no
    1 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tragic Explosion in Welsh Colliery. DESCRIPTION: A big explosion at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, in the early hours of the morning occurred when four hundred men were working below....

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  4. The First Descent into Gresford Pit Since Explosion

    Date released
    11 Mar 1935
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    301
    NoS ID
    005446
    Story no
    1 / 10

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gresford Pit Descent. SHOTLIST: General shot of the colliery buildings. Shot of the rescue team lighting cigarettes and later entering the air lock for the descent. Shot of the pithead...

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  5. The First Descent into Gresford Pit Since Explosion

    Date released
    11 Mar 1935
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    301
    NoS ID
    002003
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Gresford Pit Descent. SHOTLIST: General shot of the colliery buildings. Shot of the rescue team lighting cigarettes and later entering the air lock for the descent. Shot of the pithead...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Airborne

    Date released
    Nov 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 22nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346430
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: ‘New King Coal’, a hovercraft, spare-time built by Gresford Colliery’s mining apprentices

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