Welsh Words Are the Hardest

Coal and slate mining were the two largest industries in wales at the time. The mine employed a thousand, 850 men working in the underground tunnels and 350 working on the surface to process what was brought up. This was very prosperous for the local welsh town of wrexham until 19 34 when an underground explosion and resulting fire of the coal igniting claimed the lives of 266 of the underground workers. No efforts were ever made to recover the bodies. In the investigation to determine the cause, they found multiple safety breaches, terrible management practices and dangerously long shifts but only fined six pounds - which is still a huge spit in the face of uncompensated families.