Mining & Museums Geocache Trail Multi-Cache
Peterontheedge: This cache is unfortunately too far away for us to maintain. It is however open to adoption if anyone is interested?
Mining & Museums Geocache Trail
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Part of a series of 5 caches at the Abertillery Six Bells Mining Memorial.
'Guardian' is the largest mining memorial in Wales which commemorates the 1960 Six Bells mining disaster in which 45 men and boys lost their lives in an underground gas and coal dust explosion.
Working in partnership, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and Six Bells Communities First secured funding for a new, more fitting memorial to those who had given so much to the coal mining industry, to be erected and construction began in spring 2010.
On June 28th 2010, the 50th anniversary of the mining disaster, the memorial was unveiled at a commemorative service led by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and attended by 7,500 people including around 400 relatives of the victims who came from across the U.K and wider world.
Costing over £200,000 the memorial is a 12.6 meter high statue of a miner, constructed from over 20,000 individual slices of 10mm thick Cor- Ten- steel, a ‘weathering’ steel that allows a protective rust patina to form on its surface.
The statue weighs around 8 tones and stands on a 7.4 meter high sandstone plinth. The names, ages and home towns of each of the 45 victim of the disaster are laser cut into the Cor-Ten steel plates that surround the plinth.
Guardian now towers over 20 meters above the former Six Bells colliery site; scene of the tragedy some fifty years earlier and is dedicated to all mining communities.
This trail is part of The Valleys Heart and Soul Top 50 campaign. Visit thevalleys.co.uk to find out more.
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