School children from the Aber Valley have taken part in a workshop to create wall tiles which will form part of a national mining disaster memorial.
Pupils from Nant-Y-Parc Primary School, Ysgol Ifor Bach and Cwmaber Juniors visited the Aber Valley Heritage Museum last week and learned about the explosions at Senghenydd’s Universal Colliery in 1901 and 1913.
Four-hundred-and-forty men and boys lost their lives in the 1913 disaster and 88 who perished in the earlier explosion.
The pupils joined ceramic artist Ned Heywood at the heritage museum to create individual tiles which will detail the name, age and address of each victim from the Universal Colliery disasters.
The tiles will form a memorial wall as part of a larger National Miner’s Memorial.
For more information on the project visit www.abervalleyheritage.co.uk