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ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN/SHOWDOWN…….USA

A Side……. Roll Over Beethoven. B Side……. Showdown. Label/No……. Jet ZS8-5152. Pressed in ……. USA. Notes……. Golden Oldies issue. This pressing has the white information box on the both labels.

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Mr Thomas Brown and the Monmouthshire Hills Iron Masters

Mr Thomas Brown and the Monmouthshire Hills Iron Masters. The Monmouthshire Hills Iron Masters. The image shows the signatures and official seals of the Monmouthshire Hills Iron Masters. They are on a legal document from 1860 for the purchase of land at Ebbw Vale by the Ebbw Vale Company to which the signatories are the directors. The signatories are – …

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Mr Daniel Lewis M.E.

Mr Daniel Lewis M.E. Mr Daniel Lewis was born in 1835, at Ebbw Vale, the son of Mr Lewis Lewis. At an early age he attended Voluntary School and Sunday School and gained extra education through private study. He began his early career in the collieries and worked his way up to manager of the Jayne’s Tillery Colliery at Abertillery. …

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Lake Villa’s – Managers House Cwmtillery

Lake Villa Cwmtillery – Colliery Managers House. Prior to the mid 1880’s the various managers for the Cwmtillery and Rose Heyworth Collieries combine lived in their own houses, though in the late 1880’s the Messrs J. Lancaster Company built the Lake Villa, two-houses in one building to house the general manager and the company cashier etc for Messrs J. Lancaster …

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Cwmtillery Colliery – A Report 1869

The South Wales Colliery, Cwmtillery Colliery. A report from November 27th, 1869 – This colliery is nineteen miles distant from Newport and by a branch line of one mile a junction with the Monmouthshire railway is made at Abertillery. It has been carried on over five years by the South Wales Colliery Company who have greatly extended the colliery. The …

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Cwmtillery Colliery – Brown’s Colliery 1843

Tyr Nicholas Cwmtillery Colliery – Brown’s Colliery 1843. The Tyr Nicholas Colliery, Cwmtillery was also known as Browns Colliery in the early days after its owner Mr Thomas Brown. A section of Mr John Prujean’s map of the Collieries and Levels of North Monmouthshire printed in 1843. It shows a few old levels in the Abertillery area – Gilfach Level, …

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