Philip Weekes

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Philip Weekes (born Philip Gordon Weekes (born in the village of Nantybwch, Monmouthshire 12 June, 1920 - died Penarth, Glamorgan 26 June 2003) was a renowned mining engineer who rose to the head of his profession within the mining industry in Wales and beyond.

In 1974 at a Conference held during the Year of the Valleys, Philip Weekes described himself thus :

I have all the contrasts, the contradictions, the cussedness, the emotions that you will find in the typical valleys miner, which is what I claim to be. My devotion to the Valleys has no logic that I can discover; it seems to be rooted in emotion. An emotion that made me demand that I be removed from an exciting job as Director-General of Mining in London - to run the largest, geologically-toughest, most unprofitable coalfield in Britain, and probably, Western Europe.

See also

• Tower Colliery

References

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• Obituary, Independent newspaper
• Obituary, Times newspaper