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Articles: Colliery checks and tokens
30 January 2013[image: colliery lamp check]
Lamp checks (or 'tokens' or 'tallies') - used to find out how many men were actually underground during an incident such as a fire or explosion - are one of the most popular coal mining objects collected by both museums and the general public.Galleries: Coal Miners' Badges
13 July 2012[image: coal miners' badges]
There are many examples of badges connected to the coal industry. These badges were usually produced during industrial disputes or following mining disasters and were often sold to raise funds. Amgueddfa Cymru have several hundred examples of these these badges, some of which are now available to view online.
Articles: 'Miners lives at 5½p each': The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster
6 July 2012[image: A mother and child waiting]
The final death toll from the Senghenydd mine disaster on 14th October 1913 reached 439 men. Some of the bodies were never recovered. It was the worst mining disaster in the history of the British coalfields.Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012
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Articles: Colliery checks and tokens
30 January 2013[image: colliery lamp check]
Lamp checks (or 'tokens' or 'tallies') - used to find out how many men were actually underground during an incident such as a fire or explosion - are one of the most popular coal mining objects collected by both museums and the general public.Articles: 'Miners lives at 5½p each': The Government Enquiry into the 1913 Senghenydd mine disaster
6 July 2012[image: A mother and child waiting]
The final death toll from the Senghenydd mine disaster on 14th October 1913 reached 439 men. Some of the bodies were never recovered. It was the worst mining disaster in the history of the British coalfields.Articles: The Albert Medal and the Tynewydd Inundation
25 June 2012[image: Isaac Pride, wearing his Albert Medal]
In April 1877, the success of a ten days' operation to rescue four men and a boy trapped by floodwaters in a South Wales colliery raised an awkward question: how to reward the rescuers?Articles: Mission accomplished
19 June 2012Articles: Children in Mines
11 April 2011
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Galleries: Coal Miners' Badges
13 July 2012[image: coal miners' badges]
There are many examples of badges connected to the coal industry. These badges were usually produced during industrial disputes or following mining disasters and were often sold to raise funds. Amgueddfa Cymru have several hundred examples of these these badges, some of which are now available to view online.
Galleries: John Cornwell
10 January 2012[image: John Cornwell Photographs]
John Cornwell was a freelance photographer who took many photographs of collieries, both underground and on the surface, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He perfected a method of underground photography using the standard colliery lighting and was able to photograph coal faces, roadways, shafts and equipment with amazing clarity.