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Sunk by David Davis Jun. in 1877 on the site of the earlier Ton Colliery and later owned by his Ocean Steam Coal Co. Ceased production 1939 when men transferred to the Maendy Colliery. Closed 1959.
A report of July 1891 stated "that the two shafts, each 15ft. dia. and 39yds. apart, bricked throughout, 334 yds. deep to the Six Feet seam. The winding engine has 2 x 36" cylinders x 6' stroke with 2 x 15' dia. drums for flat ropes. One tram raised in each cage - weekly output 6,500 tons. Ventilation is produced by two furnaces at the bottom of the upcast shaft. Five Lancashire boilers 26'-6" x 6'-9" dia. supply all steam."
A photo posted by Flickr member Peter Brabham - taken c1964 www.flickr.com/photos/taffytank/3665778218/
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Treforest Tinplate Works.
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Opened 1865 by Thomas Joseph who formed the Dunraven United Collieries Ltd.
Closed 1959.
This mine later re-named Ty-draw.
August 1882 - Thomas Joseph entered bankruptcy leaving some 700 men & boys unpaid and unemployed.
April 1890 - this mine was put up for auction and included the farms of "Ty -draw" & "Hendre Gellin" together with 136 No. cottages (Terraced houses) - there were no bids.
September 1892 - a youth, John Henry Williams, was convicted of smoking underground and also having in his possession a key with which to illegally open safety lamps - he was fined the maximum of £2 + costs or the option of 14 days imprisonment.
Note the tramway from the quarry running down to the partially-built terraces - top right.
Merthyr was the largest town in Wales at this time comprising the Cyfarthfa, Penydarren, Dowlais, Plymouth and Pentrebach ironworks together with their associated coal and iron mines.
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Ordnance Survey map of Merthyr Tydfil 1875 - Chapel Row and canal basin (Middle highlight).
The basin had two main functions - to allow boats to park-up after unloading whilst awaiting their turn to load-up at the canal head - and to allow the boats to swing around prior to their return journeys. (each boat was 60ft. long excluding the rudder)
The drawbridge crossing the canal for a tramway from the rail-finishing shed can be seen adjacent to the chapel.
Also to be seen - coloured in black - is the Graving dock where canal boats were built and repaired.
The timber yards would have contained pit-props for use in Crawshay's numerous mines having been brought up from Cardiff docks although by this time,1875, the TVR would have been the carrier with this pound being relegated to boats using the graving dock facilities and the occasional cargo vessel.
The canal head at the Cyfarthfa works (Top Highlight)
By the time of this survey, 1875, canal traffic was very much in decline having been supplanted by the Taff Vale Railway from 1841 although there had been enough trade to satisfy both into the 1860's.
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8th JUNE 1895… ‘A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH’ AT MOLD
Reported in the Cheshire Observer, 8th June 1895, from the Mold Petty Sessions:
“William James, aged 14, residing with his parents at Conway-street, was charged in custody with stealing two bottles of stout and two bottles of stone beer from the warehouse of Messrs Parker and Clegg, Limited. – Harriet Crawford deposed that she was a domestic servant at Pontygarrig, which adjoins the manufactory of Messrs. Parker and Clegg. At six o’clock on the previous Sunday morning her attention was attracted by the loud barking of a dog. Upon going outside she saw the prisoner leap over the wall dividing Parker and Clegg’s premises from the road. She asked prisoner what he was doing there, and what he had in his pockets? He refused to stop. Witness informed Parker and Clegg’s manager of what had occurred. – Sergeant Burton apprehended prisoner, who, when charged, admitted the offience. – The court ordered the prisoner to be detained in a reformatory for three years, and handed him over to his father, to be kept for fourteen days, pending the completion of the arrangements for his reception.”
Image: Mold Town Plan, 1871, showing Pont y garreg (a private residence) and the Malt House (premises of Parker and Clegg Ltd. In 1895) adjoining Wrexham Street and Gas Lane, Mold.
8FED MEHEFIN 1895… ‘A PRECIOUS YOUTH’ YN YR WYDDGRUG
Adroddwyd yn yr ‘Cheshire Observer’, 8fed Mehefin 1895, yn y llys yr Wyddgrug:
“William James, aged 14, residing with his parents at Conway-street, was charged in custody with stealing two bottles of stout and two bottles of stone beer from the warehouse of Messrs Parker and Clegg, Limited. – Harriet Crawford deposed that she was a domestic servant at Pontygarrig, which adjoins the manufactory of Messrs. Parker and Clegg. At six o’clock on the previous Sunday morning her attention was attracted by the loud barking of a dog. Upon going outside she saw the prisoner leap over the wall dividing Parker and Clegg’s premises from the road. She asked prisoner what he was doing there, and what he had in his pockets? He refused to stop. Witness informed Parker and Clegg’s manager of what had occurred. – Sergeant Burton apprehended prisoner, who, when charged, admitted the offience. – The court ordered the prisoner to be detained in a reformatory for three years, and handed him over to his father, to be kept for fourteen days, pending the completion of the arrangements for his reception.”
Built by Crawshay Bailey the terminus of the Rhymney Tramroad, opened 1826, can be seen at Pont - aber-bargoed. This tramroad ran down to Pye Corner near Newport where it joined the Sirhowy Tramroad to the port.
This terminus would have been fed with iron goods from forges higher up the valley by packhorse and also carts using the dirt tracks although a study of the map of Rhymney at this time suggests most trade was via tramroads to Sirhowy and Tredegar ironworks. People would also have used this tramroad for travel due to the poor state of those tracks in winter.
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Map by Arrow Maps.
The Central Skyway, which is mostly gone now, was still signed as I-80. This freeway was - at the time - planned to extend to Golden Gate Park, where it would intersect with another freeway. Map is glued to the inside right side of a card stock cover; the map folds out of the protective cover; Oakland/Berkeley/Alameda/San Leandro map on reverse.
Zehender Theil der Orientalischen Indien
Printed Frankfurt am Mayn 1613
Printer Matthias Becker
NLA RB MISC 2700
Map by Arrow Maps. Published for a magazine distributor. Ormsby County, Nevada is now the independent/consolidated City of Carson City.
Opening at this time by Edmund Thomas & George Griffiths.
A contemporary report of an unusual accident :-
“Ty’n-y-bedw colliery – October 1874 – An incident took place at this mine in the Rhondda valley of an extraordinary nature and the escape of a sinker, who was in the pit at the time, is regarded with much excitement.
The pit in question is in the course of sinking and blasting powder is employed for the purpose – some of the men being employed in boring four new holes of considerable depth in the solid rock.
The four holes were eventually heavily charged with black powder and, when ready to light the fuses, all but three men were wound to the surface in a bowk for safety.
The three remaining men lit the fuses and sprung into the bowk having signalled the surface to raise the bucket whereupon one of the three jumped out to retrieve his shovel when, to his horror, the bucket ascended at speed without him. It was too late for him to extinguish the fuses as they had burnt to below the holes.
Following detonation the man’s butties descended with much apprehension and were not a little startled upon reaching the bottom to hear a plaintive voice ask ‘Cdwi wedi marw?’ (Am I Dead?)
It appears the poor fellow had succeeded in climbing up to a narrow beam which protected him from the main blast although badly injured.
He is rapidly recovering from his injuries.”
In June 1878 this firm was fined 40s + costs for allowing an unqualified man to accompany a stoker to attend a pump within the shaft whereupon he fell to his death.
November 1882 - Two men killed when the winding rope broke plunging the cage to the shaft bottom - Samuel Phillips, mechanic and William Jones. At the Inquest the jury found Phillips "incompetent" in that he failed to inspect the rope at regular intervals, as required by the Mines Regulation Act 1872, and severely censored the Agent, Edmund Thomas, together with the manager Thomas Salathie.
October 1883 - this mine was purchased by Messrs. Cory Bros, the transfer occurring in March 1884.
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Glan-y-Llyn - Taffs Well.
The reservoir was a shallow affair to feed water to the canal.
Note the Bryncoch colliery which is described in my mining sets.
Of interest is the highlight on right which shows a level at the site of the later New Rockwood colliery.
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The two shafts circled. These were 66 yds deep to the Mynyddislwyn seam.
The plan shows the extensive nature of the workings up to the Pengam Fault - top-right.
The workings at bottom-left are those of Maesycymmer Junction Colliery with which this mine was connected.
The workings also connected with the Penllwyn Colliery beyond the Pengam Fault by means of a 1 in 4 hard heading. Both Bryn & New Penllwyn collieries were owned by Thomas Powell.
Old Gelligroes Colliery is shown arrowed and was 42 yds. deep to the Mynyddislwyn seam.
The Buttery Hatch, Bryn & Old Gelligroes collieries were all owned in 1841 by Thomas Powell and employed 158 No. men & boys in total with 22 No. of the boys aged between 6-12 yrs.
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Map by Jigyokudo Co Ltd. Occupation era bilingual map, geared towards tourists. Detailed map of the central city, with many, many ads on the reverse. Glued into a protective, fold-out card stock cover. A great many of Kenji Mizoguchi's exquisite period dramas ("Ugetsu," "Sansho Dayu," "Chikamatsu Monogatari") were filmed here, especially during the post-war years.
This mine was owned at this time by Thomas Booker of Velindre House, Whitchurch. This site is now occupied by retail units adjacent to the Ferris coach company depot.
There are several accounts of this mine being flooded by the river prior to construction of the Bute Railway which entailed the diversion of the river further west from the road.
Closure in 1878 came with the collapse of the Booker ironworks business at Pentyrch & Melingriffith.
The railway on left is the Taff Vale Railway of 1841 and that on the right is the Rhymney Railway.
The mine originally transported coal via the canal and later,as of this survey, by rail.
In 1813 a similarly named colliery was located higher up on the hillside, the owner was Mr. Morgan Thomas who also opened the Coed-y-bedw mine at Pentyrch.
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Map by MAPCO. Pocket sized map is glued to the inside right rear side of a protective card stock sleeve. Tiny, tiny print - the Cambridge portion of the map is virtually unreadable. Most MAPCO base maps were created in 1955. A small number - this map among them - were Interstate Publishing maps that simply had their copyrights transfered during the corporate metamorphosis.
Map by Rand McNally. The county - or judicial districts - shown on this map were either abandoned or reorganized - you don't see them on contemporary maps of B.C.
Ordnance Survey map.
The amount of development here is testimony to the importance of the town to the Industrial Revolution in Britain and, indeed, the world.
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