A Side……. Showdown B Side……. Showdown Label/No……. United Artists UA XW842-Y Pressed in ……. USA Notes……. Promo record. Intro timing printed on label.

The Aberbeeg North Colliery  Aberbeeg North Colliery (as seen in the image above) was located on the bank of the river Ebbw Fawr in the Cwm Valley, not far from the Hanbury Hotel, close to where the Fly-Over Garage is today. The Sinking of the Colliery. In 1860 the Aberbeeg North Colliery was established and its sinking began under the …

The New Colliery – Aberbeeg. Monmouthshire, post-war 1918, the Messrs J. Lancaster & Company with the Ebbw Vale Company planned to sink a new colliery in the Cwm Valley at Aberbeeg. Arrangements were made with the Great Western Railway Company to install railway sidings with a bridge over the river (as seen left) branching off the main line from Aberbeeg …

A Side……. Shine A Little Love B Side……. Don’t Bring Me Down Label/No……. Jet ZS8-5153 Pressed in ……. USA Notes……. Reissue on the Golden Oldies series. This copy has the White info box on the both labels Release dates on both labels.

A Side……. Shine A Little Love B Side……. Don’t Bring Me Down Label/No……. Jet ZS8-5153 Pressed in ……. USA Notes……. Reissue on the Golden Oldies series. Release dates on both labels.

Nantyglo House. In the early years of the iron & coal industry at Nantyglo it was thought that Messrs Joseph and Crawshay Bailey had the round houses or towers built, I have searched for a construction date and a reason for them but can’t find information. The consensus was that they were built between 1810 and 1822 to possibly protect …

Nantyglo Iron and Coal Works History. I understand a lot of books, other articles and web pages have been written on the exploits of the Bailey Brothers and the alleged tyranny of Mr Crawshay Bailey, though this is just a brief non-judgemental timeline with a few previously unknown, details on Crawshay and Joseph Bailey and their life and times at …

Colliery Doctors – Arael Griffin Colliery Six Bells. Dr T. Muir. In the 1890’s the Arael Griffin Colliery Doctor was Dr T. Muir, Doctor Muir was the surgeon to the Arael Griffin and the Powell’s Tillery Collieries. He was the brother of the Cwmtillery Doctor Dr D. C. Muir. Dr Abernethy and Dr W. G. Sargent. In 1895 Dr Abernethy, …

Colliery Doctors – Cwmtillery & Rose Heyworth Collieries. Dr Edmund Thomas Hale. The earliest medical doctor I can find documented as being resident at Cwmtillery is in 1866 when there was a report of a Mr Edmund Thomas Hale, a surgeon to the Abertillery Collieries. In 1864 the South Wales Colliery Co purchased the collieries from Mr John Russell, so …

The Clyn Mawr Cottages Blaenau Gwent Rows 1880. An 1880 map of the Clyn Mawr Cottages designed by Mr Lawrence Heyworth of the South Wales Colliery Company.   Points of interest – The map features (top to bottom) Ty-Dan-y-Wal House. The Rising Sun Inn. The Cock n Chick School (built at the same time as the Clyn Mawr Cottages on …