Senghenydd colliery disaster: 100 years on

Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies reports from the Welsh village of Senghenydd - the scene of Britain's worst ever mining disaster after 439 workers lost their lives 100 years ago.

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A statue to mine owner William Lewis had been erected at Senghenydd as early as 1911. It took until 1981 for the NCB to unveil a memorial to the 440 men and boys who lost their lives. Colliery manager Edward Shaw was fined £25 and the company fined £10 which equates to the value of each miners life being just 1 shilling. Around 5 pence in today's currency.

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If ever a statue needed removing and throwing into the sea it's William lewis's

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We should never forget the price of coal on this island
Senghenydd was the worst, but literally thousands of men and boys lie entombed in our coalfields

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I'm from senghenydd and my school is the building next to it and I now some of those people

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My gran lost two cousins in that pit

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who’s here because of school?