Title

Flooding at Tynewydd Colliery

Caption

Flooding at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Wales, 11 April 1877. Scene at the pit head as anxious relatives and colleagues wait for the cage containing trapped miners to reach the surface - dead or alive after to day underground? Engraving from "Heroes of Britain" by Edwin Hodder (London, c1880). Mining. Coal. Accident. Inundation.

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Photos12.com - Ann Ronan Picture Library

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Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library

Reference

ARP07113_010502P

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Rights managed

Available size

24,5Mb (3,1Mb) / 11,8in x 8,1in / 3543 x 2420 (300dpi)