NEW Cumnock residents joined survivors and relatives to commemorate the Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery Disaster on Sunday.
Wreaths were laid at the memorial near to the sight of the old mine.
And tributes were paid to the 13 men killed in the disaster in September 1950.
The eyes of the world were on New Cumnock when 129 of the 700-strong workforce were trapped.
The accident happened after an area the size of a football pitch of the peat bog above collapsed into the mine on September 7.
A daring rescue attempt three days later saw 116 survivors freed with the aid of oxygen masks through an adjacent abandoned mineshaft.
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