Collieries of south wales books

Also click here to find out how this resource was developed. Collieries of south wales landmark collectors library vol 1. News long reads more than a century on, ghosts of one of britains worst mining disasters still haunt the welsh valleys. Volume 2, oxfam, john cornwell, 1843060175, 9781843060178, books, history. This book enhanced my knowledge of the pits where my greatgrandfather, my grandfather and uncle worked from the 1890s through to their closures in the 1960s. Quite a confronting book about the coalmining industry and the disasters that have befallen it over the years. List of collieries in the rhondda valleys wikipedia. Vol 1 landmark collectors library hardcover 31 aug 2001. The images, use the authors painting with light technique to create evocative photographs. When fire broke out at the great western colliery on 11 april 1893 125. Collieries of south wales landmark collectors library v. A collection of photographs from 30 collieries across the coalfields of south wales. The list below attempts to show a complete list of levels and collieries opened within the rhondda.

Prince of wales, visits insoles ltd colliery at cymmer. Maerdy colliery was a coal mine located in the south wales village of maerdy welsh. Coal mining history resource centre includes a list of 55,000 names of people who died in uk mines from 1850 to 1904. Fourth book in the 4 series with another 200 photographs. South wales coalfield collection established in 1969 as an attempt to preserve the documentary records of the mining community of south wales. As with volume 1, the photographs are of high quality. Collieries of south wales landmark collectors library vol 1 cornwell john on. The autobiography of a miner working in south wales 1939. More than a century on, ghosts of one of britains worst mining.

Mining disasters by david owen paperback, 2005 at the best online. Vol 1 having lived in pontypridd for a number of years i was aware of the collieries in that area. Coal mines, collieries, drifts, welsh mining disasters. After the strike pit closures accelerated at such a rate that by the early 1990s there was only one deep mine left in the whole of south wales. It includes photographs on the surface and underground of an industry now virtually nonexistent and just a memory. More than a century on, ghosts of one of britains worst. Mining links, books and resources welsh coal mines forum. Nowadays coaling mining is merely a distant faded memory in most minds and of course the young cannot remember anything of the industry that once dominated the area.

Following on from the success of volume 1, this book consists of more colliery photographs, with over 200 photographs from 29 collieries not featured in volume 1. South wales collieries volume 4 methyr, glamorganshire, to the eastern valleys of rhymney. Pontsticill junction talybont on usk talyllyn junction blaenserchan colliery andrew barclay mountain ash colliery sir gomer. A level is seen as a horizontal cut into a hill or mountain to access a seam of coal, while a colliery consists of shafts mined into the earth to reach seams of coal underground. In that same year, the port of cardiff alone exported 11 million tons of top. The book itself contains a series of maps that locate each colliery and a selection of photographs to gave a flavour of the coalfield.

Books and some articles relating to coal mining, especially historical. The rhondda valleys were, between 1860 and 1939, one of the worlds most important coal mining regions. Rhondda valleys information and history high resolution old photos of the coal mines pits collieries in ton pentre in the rhondda valleys, glamorgan, south wales. Collieries of south wales landmark collectors library.