Mr Eveleigh finished working as a miner 22 years after the explosion, in 1987.
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Mr Eveleigh, who was at Lewis Merthyr Colliery, is now a guide at the Rhondda Heritage Park on the same site.
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Mr Eveleigh said that, after investigations at the coal face, work restarted at Cambrian colliery just days after the tragedy, and it did not stop him working.
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