Month: September 2024

In Memory of my Hen Taid Francis Owens Hughes. 30 August 1873 - 22 September 1934. Also of the 265 men who perished with him.

Today I attended the 90th anniversary of the Gresford Colliery disaster, North Wales, along with other family members of the men who died due to the disaster. In the early hours of September 22, 1934, a catastrophic event unfolded beneath the Welsh village of Gresford. The Gresford Colliery, one of the deepest coal mines in […]

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