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Gellifaelog Colliery 1845 Walter Coffin Tonypandy: Unknown Unknown Unknown Newbridge Colliery [1] [2] 1845: John Calvert: Gelliwion, Pontypridd: 1897: 486 (1896) Rhondda No. 3 9 Porth Colliery 1845 David W. James Porth Unknown Unknown Unknown 10 Troedyrhiw (Aber Rhondda) Colliery 1845 Leonard Hadley Ynyshir: 1901 130 (1896) Rhondda No. 3 11 ...
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 ...
An explosion at the mine in May 1901 saw the deaths of 81 men. An even greater explosion in the mine on 14 October 1913 became the greatest colliery disaster in British mining history, with the loss of 439 men and boys. [2] The subsequent government inquiry, which saw the mine manager fined £24 and the colliery owners £10, caused great ...
Ferndale Colliery was a series of nine coal mines, located close to the village of Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. History [ edit ]
File:Cymmer Colliery, Porth, Rhondda Valley (4641247).jpg. ... A cropped version of the image was published in Sixty-One Views of the Rhondda Valley in 1905. Date:
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.
Cambrian Colliery Memorial, near Clydach Vale. The Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967 near Clydach Vale in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. It is notable for its huge production and for two infamous explosion disasters, in 1905 and 1965, in which a total of 64 miners were killed.
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 ...