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Rhondda No. 3 11 Ynyshir House 1845 Shepherd & Evans Ynyshir 1909 55 (1908) Rhondda No. 2 12 Perch Levels 1847 William Perch Blaenclydach: Unknown Unknown Rhondda No. 2 13 Cymmer (Old) Colliery: 1847 George Insole & Son Cymmer 1940 780 (1918) Rhondda No. 3 14 Coedcae Colliery 1850 Edward Mills Trehafod: 1935 585 (1923) Rhondda No. 3 15
Blaencwm (Welsh: Blaen-y-Cwm) is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, lying at the head the Rhondda Fawr valley. Two collieries were opened here during the Industrial Revolution, the Dunraven Colliery in 1865 and the Glenrhondda Colliery in 1911. Both had closed by 1966 and the sites have since been landscaped, leaving ...
The Bute Merthyr Colliery, in Treherbert in the Rhondda Valley, was the first colliery to produce steam coal in the Rhondda valley. A trial pit was dug in 1851, and the colliery was closed in 1926. A trial pit was dug in 1851, and the colliery was closed in 1926.
In the 1840s coal mining began in the valley, but this was on a small scale and no pits were sunk at this time. Towards the end of the century there was a marked increase in mining activity, several collieries being opened, including Lefel-Y-Bush (1863), Blaenclydach (1863), Cwmclydach (1864) and Clydach Vale Collieries Nos. 1, 2 and 3.
Rhondda Heritage Park. Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery ...
It was renamed Ystrad Rhondda in 1930, and renamed Ton Pentre in 1986 when a new Ystrad Rhondda railway station also opened about a mile further down the line to the east. A local government district , governed by a local board, was established in 1877 covering most of the parish of Ystradyfodwg, but excluding the Rhigos area. [ 1 ]
Nantgarw Colliery (amalgamated with Windsor Colliery in 1974, closed 1986); deepest pit in the South Wales Coalfield when sunk in 1915; Navigation Colliery in Crumlin; Nine Mile Point Colliery at Cwmfelinfach (closed 1964) Oakdale Colliery at Ty Mellyn in the Sirhowy Valley (closed 1989; linked to Markham and Celynen North) Ogilvie Colliery ...
His first mine, the first in Gilfach Goch, was the Dinas Main Colliery. [6] It reached the Rhondda No.3 seam in 1868 and was known for its high quality coal and coke. [ 6 ] The Dinas Main Colliery Company sank two shafts into the steam coal measure between 1894 and 1896, and this pit became known as the Britannic Merthyr Colliery. [ 6 ]