Cwmtillery Colliery

The Cwmtillery Colliery. The Cwmtillery Colliery, image taken from West Bank about 1911.   Points of interest – The colliery and grounds in the center of the image with the company cottages either side of the valley once owned by the South Wales Colliery Company and constructed for the large workforce. On the left is the colliery feeder, flight buckets …

Cwmtillery Colliery with the Coke Ovens. During the latter part of the 19th century tramping vagrants would walk the valley’s looking for some sort of employment, a few of them would be too aged, ill and unable to work in heavy industry, often they would be eligible for relief and receive about 8d. per day for food, though many would …

Cwmtillery Colliery – Without the Coke Ovens. (Information to come).

Cwmtillery Colliers Hall. On Friday 31st of July 1874, the construction of the Colliers Hall at Cwmtillery commenced. The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Rose Heyworth, wife of Mr Lawrence Heyworth, the director of the South Wales Colliery Company. Within the foundations she placed a sealed bottle containing new current coins and a parchment with an inscription of the …

The Living Frog Found in a Block of Coal at Tyr Nicholas, Cwmtillery Colliery. This is a story from Monday 10th March 1862, of how miners at Ty Nicholas Colliery the Cwmtillery Colliery found a lump of coal below ground in the rock vein seam with a small hole in it. Sealed inside the hole was a living frog, as …

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 …

Cwmtylery Work and Win Committee 1878. (Back row) Mr D. Smith; M. Wallace; Mrs Rees; (Unknown); Mr W. Townsend and Mr Rhys Jones. (Second row) Mr George Stafford; Mr J. Thompson; Mr A. Watkins; Mr Thomas Wright; Mr L. Lewis; Mr Joe Rogers and Mr H. Lloyd. (Sitting) Mr W. Sutcliffe;  Mr J. Brown (Fireman); Mr Sam Taylor (Manager in …

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 – …

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. …

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 …