Tarenni Colliery 1858, when the Primrose Colliery was owned by Morgan and Lewis, fumes of an engine boiler suffocated 14 men and boys, and 7 horses. According to HM Inspectorate of Mines and Quarries data, outside the Gwendraeth valley, Tarenni Colliery had the highest set of recorded incidents for coal damp and methane gas explosions. In total during its production lifetime, there were six outbursts in which three men lost their lives: one on 12 December 1914; two on 17 February 1941. On 1 November 1909, water from the abandoned Ynysgeinon pit caused the death of five miners at Tarenni No.2. On
There once was a man from Nantucket There once was a man from Nantucket "There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates rhymes and puns, often obscene. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized. The opening line is so well known that it has been used as a stand-alone joke, implying upcoming obscenities. The earliest published version appeared in 1902 in the "Princeton Tiger" written by Prof. Dayton Voorhees: Other publications seized upon the "Nantucket" motif, spawning many sequels Among the most well known are: