Cwmtillery Colliery

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 …

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, …

Tyr-Nicholas Land. This is a section of the 1840 tithe map showing the area of land known as Tyr-Nicholas, the land upon which Mr Thomas Brown of the Cwmcelyn and Blaina Iron Company established Tyr Nicholas Colliery, Cwmtillery Colliery. Sinking started in about 1840 and in September 1842 the elled coal seam was struck. The shaft was 130 yards deep …