Levant Mining Disaster 1919
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- Documentary and interview relating to the Levant Mining disaster of 20th October 1919. Ted Gundry Interview.
The loss of 31 miners was a tragic accident due to the faulty Man Engine used to transport miners up and down the mine shaft.
Heartbreaking just heartbreaking. People who have lived their lives remembering those poor men and this terrible scandalous disaster. I’m glad we at least have this record, voices that were actually there to remember and bear witness. Rest in peace all.
A very valuable video of this terrible tragedy. To remember & not to forget!! Very sad to see the corruption & greed from the owners of the company towards the mens families who died in this disaster!….SHAMEFUL & DISGUSTING!
Both sides of my family mined here and Geevor. My great grandfather survived the Levant mine disaster but lost part of his hand and was left with a cleft pallete. Kernow bys vyken!
My life was in coal, rather than tin mining and I know that every man had each other's back at all times and, without a second thought, would put their own lives at risk to help a fellow miner. The finest men I have ever known.
My great-grandfather mined along with his brother and their father i (St Just) in Cornwall. My great-grandfather and his brother left for the coal mines of mid-usa around 1880, I think. About all I know is they came via Liverpool. My great-grandfather and his brother found coal jobs as soon as they got off the train. They all knew the mines in Cornwall were nearly mined out. They both prospered in the US, and settled about 100 miles apart. My grandfather was in the Sullivan Indiana "Baker Mine Explosion." There's a video somewhere on TH-cam about that mine accident. My grandfather had a knee injury, but never did walk w/o a limp again. And you are right when you refer to the men as the finest you ever knew. My grandfather went down into the mines in 1909. He worked in the mines until he lost his life to the black lung. We live in a rural area, with mostly farms. But the coal mines in the area continue to grow. I worked for a while in the mines, atop the mines in the technology department that had a continuous location on each and ever miner for each shift. Technology has gone down the mine too. Who would have ever seen that coming?
Horrific. This event has been preserved in this video at least. God rest all who suffered.
Ancestors of the mines still lay flowers at the old shaft every year
Thank you for letting me see the generations that came before me, a simpler and quieter time.
All will be redeemed.
What an Horrendous tragedy.. it wasn't an accident really... the management knew the engine was old as the hills . they should've sorted it out ..Corporate manslaughter more like.. It was all about the money. and still is.. awful attitude ..
My great grand father a tinminer proud of him
When I was a miner in the 70s we didn't wash our backs either, often large arm muscles made this almost impossible, but the tradition was your bathing partner washed it for you and you reciprocated the act on him. We washed each others backs and we watched each others backs such was life as a miner .
This government of ours seem to give an impression that they are kind generous and caring for their people. When something like this happens they don’t want to know. If you go back in history you will see just how disgusting the British government are.
Brave men indeed to do such work.
My father's family were Cornish miners.
What lovely accents they all have. Its a real shame, but you rarely hear anybody with a Cornish accent anymore
This is what happens when you let the English mass move here, we not only lose our language and culture, but also our accent. Very sad
All depends where you are😉
Around 3:00, could someone please explain to me how washing your back could make them weak? What am I missing here?
How could a shaft over a thousand feet long hold together. That thing was insane but clever.
These are my relatives! The Angwins, the Trembath's, the Rowe's, the Stevens, the Richard's, the Lawry's, the Warren's the Tonkin's. All my Direct Ancestors - Cornwall represent lol👌 Also RIP to my cuzzies ❤️
I am a Stevens from Penzance, my great grandmother was a Warren and my family are from St. Just and Pendeen who worked in South Africa, Levant and Geevor
You are probably related to me. Right on cousin Jenny. Kernow Bys Vyken, Dyw genes!
@@dollyjeanstevens oh my gosh cool! Nice to meet you :) I done a dna test a few years ago and confirmed all my ancestors on all these lines back to 5th great-grandparents!! Any chance you have a family tree I could see? Or would you let me research your family line to figure out if we are indeed related? Which if you're related to the Warren's and Stevens then I'd say so. BTW my 3rd Great-Grandfather on that line is named John Stevens :) Hah..
@@mo0nstonegirl Haha, my full name is John Bennett Stevens, which was a common practice back then. My middle name should actually be Bennetts with an ‘s’ . My Warren family are from Pendeen a stones throw away from Geevor tin mine. My great uncle went to South Africa to mine before the Boar war. I have a beautiful tie pin made from a large nugget of gold and a large diamond that he brought back with him. My cousin’s father Richard Legg was the last generation of miners to mine Geevor tin mine who was made redundant in the 1990’s when the world price for tin collapsed. Let me ask my father for the names of my Warren family. My relations are the Stevens, Warrens, Pope and Bennetts
I was named after my Grandfather as my dad is and I have named my son the same it was and still is a very common practice here
Read about Levant when I was a schoolboy (from D. Bradford Barton's brilliant little book series probably), and stumbled upon this video by chance.
It's very interesting - some might say downright depressing - that, despite huge changes in the law, the sort of serious omissions/ negligence then subsequent conduct of fund trustees does still happen occasionally 105 years later.
God bless all Kernow folk. God bless those at Levant.
This is a very good documentary on this event. I’ve seen others on TH-cam, but none that put more of an human face on it than this.
Although, I wouldn’t have minded being spared the 'Vogon Poetry' at the end; twas truly heinous.😉
Tough community of people
The lord is with you. All now we remember 1919 we will rember you all and family of the 20 Oct 1919 we see one but h you calling in the air
my Great grandfather was a Cornish tin miner moved over to south Wales died battle of the Somme
I would have a panic attack halfway down the elevator in fear that it would break and id be stuck underground Dx
You'd really love the modern chairs /cages, before we closed all our pits. 14 mtrs per second 1,000 to 2,000 ft shafts. or 8 mtrs per sec for visitors. loved my job on the face.
My mother was born in 1919
They told us that on the leaves that mine tour
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