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Gresford Colliery;United Westminster and Wrexham Colliery, Wrexham

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Digitized 35mm slide showing Wrexham colliery engine-house.

Digital copy of a black and white, oblique aerial photograph of Gresford Colliery. The photograph shows the view from the south east, taken one month after one of the worst mining disasters in the country on 22nd September, 1934, when a major explosion and subsequent fire in the Dennis section killed 266 miners. There are no obvious signs of damage at the surface and no signs of any activity whatsoever. Photograph taken by Aero Pictorial Ltd.

Gresford Colliery; B&W photo showing general view of colliery, donated by T.A. James. Negative not held.

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