National Miners Memorial - Lucky 7 - Sengennedd, Wales.
N 51° 36.703 W 003° 16.819
30U E 480590 N 5717890
The central bronze sculpture entitled ‘The Rescue’ showing two coal miners feature at the Welsh National Mining Memorial & Universal Colliery Memorial Garden, located in Senghenydd, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMPKRE
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/15/2015
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Senghenydd Mine Disaster - The history of Senghenydd, is the saddest of any town in the British Isles. The Universal Colliery in this small Welsh village was only open for 30 years and two disasters claimed 520 coal miners lives.
"October 2013 saw the opening of the new Welsh National Mining Memorial and Universal Colliery Memorial Garden in Senghenydd.
The bronze sculpture entitled ‘The Rescue’ was designed and made by sculptor Les Johnson.
The ceramic name tiles for the Memorial Wall were made at a series of community and school workshops during November 2012. These were led by ceramic artists Ned Heywood and Julia Land from Chepstow and involved all the local Primary Schools of the Aber Valley.
The ceramic pavers documenting each national colliery disaster in Wales were also made by Ned and Julia at their workshop." Text Source: (
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