One of the oldest miners in the UK, Ginger Parsons, visiting an exhibit to the Marine Colliery disaster of 1927 (Image: Blaenau Gwent CBC)

Ginger Parsons – believed to be one of, if not the, oldest former miner in the UK celebrates his 102nd birthday!

Ginger revealed his incredible life story while visiting an exhibition at the EBBW VALE WORKS MUSEUM which tells the tale of the 1927 mining disaster at Marine Colliery, Cwm. Although too young to remember the tragedy that killed 52 men, Ginger recalls being carried to the colliery site on his father’s shoulders to find out what had happened.

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