The Gresford Mining Disaster Memorial

Professor Williams introduces and reflects upon the design, materials, setting and story of the Gresford Mining Disaster Memorial.
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[@dazsalomon529]

If you go into the car park on the gresford industrial estate there is a stone obelisk which marks the location of the martin shaft, 500 yds South is the location of the dennis shaft, but you have to ask the factory permission to acces it

[@elle-iza]

What a terrible tragedy. :( These are two of my most feared ways of dying (buried under the earth or getting stuck and burned) together.
Unrelated to this topic: Would you consider making some kind of introductory video about yourself and your work? I am very interested in how and why you were interested in archeology in general and this special field (death and burial) in particular. Have you always had a certain morbid fascination or have you developed it "on the go" while researching other topics?

[@archaeodeath]

Thanks! I will do this and post the link here. Sorry for the delay in replying to this comment.

[@dazsalomon529]

The memorial is not on the site of the pit, the actual pit , martin and dennis shaft are 500 yds away on the other side of the road