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See more images such as this one from the Valleyfield Disaster in 1939 that claimed the lives of 35 miners in an exhibition in the Kingsgate Shopping Centre that runs from this Wednesday until Sunday and is supported by the Dunfermline Press and Visit Dunfermline
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My cousin, Tom Doyle sculpted the memorial at Valleyfield x
My grandfather, Sandy Campbell, was first aider at the pit and one of those responsible for bringing the bodies out
Our Dad George Toal survived but was badly burned, he last his Dad and Brother.
Susan
Aye I saw that xx
Jan Scott
Ann Mayne
My great uncle Jimmy was registrar for that area, and waited till the last man came up from the shaft, before leaving. He said it was like loosing his family, for every man that came up dead.
The woman far left holding the wee boy is my granny with my uncle James Jamie Harley