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Merthyr Vale Colliery
(Nixon's Navigation), Merthyr Tydfil
 

 

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1984

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Merthyr Vale Colliery

 
 

Merthyr Vale Colliery - 1963

(Photograph courtesy of David Chillcott)
 

 

 

 
 
Merthyr Vale Colliery

 

Merthyr Vale Colliery - 1989.

E-Mailed By Wayne Morris.

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Merthyr Vale Colliery and Surrounding Area

Showing the Aberfan Tip, following the disaster of 1966

(Photograph Courtesy of Islwyn Groves via Terry Sergeant)

 

Merthyr Vale Colliery Feeder Pond - circa 1987-88

View from the main road looking over the Feeder Pond towards the intake shaft.

(Photograph Courtesy of Nigel Moss)

 
Young Workers

Nixon's Navigation Colliery. (Postcard courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove.)

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Merthyr Vale Colliery

(Photograph Courtesy of the Kenneth J Gunter Collection)

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Merthyr Vale Colliery - 1903

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Merthyr Vale Colliery

Note the Crecraft's Travelling Magic Lantern Show in the foreground.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dave Lewis)

 
Merthyr Vale Colliery Four Way - 1989

(Photograph courtesy of Islwyn Groves, via Terry Sergeant)

 

    
 

Looking over Merthyr Vale Colliery towards the Aberfan Tips

(Photograph courtesy of Dennis Bennett)

 

Merthyr Vale Colliery 1970.

Shaftsmen and Banksmen Pit Top.

from left to right.
                      Glyn Jones, Bert Hughes Banksmen, Dai Samuels Fireman, Tommy Harris Pitman
                      Young boy Gerald Kirwan, Jack Kirwan Foreman Pitman.

(Photograph and names courtesy of Derek Broad)

 

Merthyr Vale Miners

(Photograph Courtesy of David Moon)

 
Colliery Officials - 16th April 1897.

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Merthyr Vale Colliery Band - Date Unknown

(Photograph Courtesy of Jill Peck)

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Taking down the chimney stack - 1967.

(Photograph courtesy of Clive Thomas)

 
Taking down the Chimney Stack - 1967

(Photograph courtesy of Islwyn Groves, via Terry Sergeant)

 
Inside the Chimney Stack - 1967

(Photograph courtesy of Islwyn Groves, via Terry Sergeant)

 

No 1 pit, 16ft Headgear Sheave. October 1980.

(Photograph courtesy of Derek Broad)

 

Night Stokers - 1912.

(Photograph Courtesy of Maureen Hughes)

 
The 1912 Strike, Catering Committee

 
Merthyr Vale Colliery - Workers with the Pit Pony

(Photograph courtesy of Islwyn Groves, via Terry Sergeant)

 
NCB Coal Train at Merthyr Vale

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Merthyr Vale Colliery

 

Cap Lamp Recharging Units

The yellow cover indicates that the person was not coal face trained.

(Photograph Courtesy of Nigel Moss)

 

Victor Bernard Moss Reading his Redundancy Letter

(Photograph Courtesy of Nigel Moss)

 

Merthyr Vale Colliery - From Glyndwr Street

(Photograph Courtesy of Alan Williams)

 

A View of Merthyr Vale Colliery

(Photograph Courtesy of Don Chamberlain)

 
Merthyr Vale Colliery Sidings - Circa 1896

(Photograph courtesy of David Chillcott)
 

 

 

 
 

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Click Here to

View the

1984

Miner's Strike

Click Here

 to Visit the

 Court Royal

Miners' Welfare Hotel

Click Here

To Visit The

Merthyr Vale

Colliery Railway

Click HereTo View

Tony Richards'

Photographs of

Merthyr Vale Colliery

 
 

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