Records of deadly 1934 pit explosion in Wrexham to be displayed near site | Wales

Touching records about a coliory disaster that has not been seen in decades in the 1930s National Archives It is exhibited instead of the mine in Northern Wales.

The documents in the archive of Western London include petitions and emotional letters for the recovery of bodies stuck in the underground explosion in PIT in Gresford. Despite the heartfelt antelies, the vast majority remain there.

Another document that can trigger anger rather than sadness is a falsified security record book that emphasizes the attempt to cover up the failures of more than 260 people in the weeks before the 1934 disaster.

For the first time, the national archives in Kew exhibited original documents to a community. The archives thought that it was vital to hear the voices of people who lost too much in the disaster in the region where the disaster took place.

79 -year -old Alan Jones, who worked in the mine in the 1960s, said that the temporary return of documents to Wrexham was welcomed. “What’s going to depth with everyone in Wrexham,” he said. “We all have a connection.”

Jones’ Tai (grandfather) Josiah, when the disaster hit the mine, but his cousin Jabez changed shifts. Jones said: “Jabez’s body was still buried there. My grandfather has never returned to work – we believe that the survivor has the guilt.”

Another work was told to compensate after the explosion to give the impression that significant security checks were performed.

In the archive, the police in the evidence Cuffin, “I have recorded a series of air measurements. Saved measurements” not taken in the pit and wrong. “

“I could see the bonds immediately. I did not know that the book existed.”

The documents will be screened at the Wrexham Library on Monday and Tuesday. They will then be taken back to Kew, where the public can come to the reading rooms and order them to research.

In addition, there are urgent phone messages and records of the investigation as well as the disaster, as the disaster emerges.

Sarah Castagnetti, Visual Collections in National Archives Team ManagerThe city’s football team Hollywood stars Rob Mcehenney and Ryan Reynolds about how to be captured by the Wrexham documentary series was asked to seek records about the disaster.

When he found exercise books full of the names of people who want to save the bodies of their loved ones, he said that he was “on his runway”. “There were names after names after names,” he said.

Castagnetti emphasized a letter from Margaret Capper, who called on officials to save his brother John’s body. Capper wrote: “It makes me sad to see my mother and my father suffer from terrible pain under this heavy burden to carry, and the idea of ​​where their loved ones lie is unbearable.”

Castagnetti said: “People’s voices were thrown out and very active. I wanted to let the people of Wrexham more closely in the story.”