IN 1934 266 MINERS LOST THIER LIVES IN THE GRESFORD COLLIERY DISASTER. THEIR BODIES WERE NEVER RECOVERED. REST IN PEACE. THERE CAN BE NO DRILLING HERE. Fears that any drilling for Coal Bed Methane near Wrecsam could accidentally strike the flooded coal workings at Gresford colliery have been raised. The concerns were aired by a former mining surveyor who worked at the mine before it closed in 1972 at a public meeting in Saith Seren, Wrecsam. Phil Owen, of Wrecsam, explained that any drilling to extract methane from the coal seams could easily breach the old workings from Gresford, which spread close to the planned test borehole near Borras. He vowed there would be mass opposition to any such move, given that there are still hundreds of bodies of dead miners interred after the 1934 explosion. youtube/watch?v=9J0fGrdMcp8
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