The Gray Colliery – A Brief History. Powell’s Tillery Steam Coal Co. The Sinking of the Gray and the Vivian Collieries 1889. The Vivian Colliery at Six Bells and the Gray Colliery at Abertillery were sunk at the same time under the directorship of the owners the Powell’s Tillery Steam Coal Company. Tenders were invited for the sinking in January …
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The Gray Colliery – List of Fatalities
The Gray Colliery – List of Fatalities. This list of deaths at the Gray Colliery, Abertillery covers most of those reported in National and Local Newspapers and Ancestry files. This page is fluid and will be updated as more information is received. Entries with an asterisk* after the date signify that the name and date was taken from Ancestry and …
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The Gray Colliery in later years. An image of the Gray Colliery in later years after it was taken over by the Ebbw Vale Company. The headgear was changed and there were then Ebbw Vale Company coal trucks in the sidings.
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