Blaina Collieries

The Stones Colliery.
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The Upper Deep Colliery.
Opened in about 1855, the Upper Deep Colliery was located in the Cwmcelyn area and may have been opened by Messrs Levick & Simpson.

In 1864 a coal cutter was invented by Levick and Jones of Cwmcelyn and exhibited in the Paris Exhibition. Mr James Brown and his brother Mr Thomas Brown also had connections to the Lower Deep Colliery. It was later owned by Messrs J. Lancaster Co.

The Globe Pit.
The Globe Pit is one of the earliest collieries in the area, more than probably opened by the Messrs J. & C. Bailey, a part of the Blaina Iron Works. The shaft was directly behind the Market Hall.

In 1936 a team of miners driving a heading at the Beynon’s Colliery struck the old workings of the Globe Pit and found an old dram from that colliery.

The Lower Deep Colliery.
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The North Griffin No1 Colliery.
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The Cinder Pit.
In 1873 the Cinder Pit was sunk, it was situated in the Blaina valley just a little north of the Blaina Iron Works.

In 1893 the Cinder Pit was closed, all the stock (livestock and dead stock) was sold off at the Pentwyn Farm by the pit contractor Mr Thomas Lewis.

Mr Charles Webber.
In 1907 the large wooden head frame of the Cinder Pit, Blaina was dismantled, as the frame was being taken apart by Mr Charles Webber a carpenter by trade working on the demolition team one of the uprights fell and struck him, he was taken home but sadly died of his injuries a few days later.