Sadly on the 14th of October 1913 the Senghenyedd Pit Disaster occurred four hund[b]red and thirty nine Coal Miners lost their lives, Penyrheol Cemetery Caerphilly had just opened the previous year so the front of Penyrheol cemetery had a lot of Coal Miners buried there, they were killed in the explosion, as a young lad I would walk through Penyrheol Cemetery and see these grave stones. . There were two identical marble gravestones of two miners killed and both their wives never re-married and died about fifty years later, most of these gravestones have now disappeared and so has the history gone with the gravestones, Caerphilly Council are removing these memorials not contacting the families who are descended their plan is to completely remove all the gravestones from the bottom of the Cemetery to make it easier to cut the grass it's a changing world cost cutting everywhere standards are going down.
It has been suggested Caerphilly Council intends clearing A & B altogether you can see from the photographs there are large gaps where Grave stones were my Great Grandparents are buried in section A I will be contacting Caerphilly Council shortly to try and protect their memorial.
I expect this is happening in other parts of the country personally I think it's disrespectful of Caerphilly Council.
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@peterlee I know of two different families who Grandparents Memorial has been removed from this Cemetery without being informed by Caerphilly Council, yes the past is soon forgotten.
