Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Senghenydd pit disaster, 1913, film negative
Black and white film negative of a photograph showing two men (rescuers), each with early electric safety handlamps, seen holding a cage containing the "canary that was carried down the mine to test the air" after the Universal Colliery explosion at Senghenydd on Tuesday, 14th October, 1913. Mr Charles Adams (ref. P2010.5) is on the left, and the man on the right is his brother Albert Adams.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Historical Associations
Creu/Cynhyrchu
20th century, late / 1913