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Welsh Mine Horror

Series

Series Name
British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.
373
Date Released
24 Sep 1934
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Perry Now Tennis King
  2. 2Welsh Mine Horror
  3. 3Protest Rainbow’s Second
  4. 4Guests of King and Queen
  5. 5Tarleton is Game Loser

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
Two hundred feared dead. Scenes at Gresford Colliery where worst mine disaster for twenty-one years entombed four hundred workers in early morning explosion.
Keywords
Mining; Accidents and disasters
Locations
Wrexham
Library number
2883

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Film Archive

Name
Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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Notes
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