History of the Gwent Collieries

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Headgear Framework, the photograph was taken from the back of the colliery.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The view from the back of the colliery looking south-east.  The houses of the Arael View estate can be seen top and bottom.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Headgear Framework. The Bournville Slips on Mynydd James can be seen in the background. The white plastic suction shuttle tubes can be seen attached to the back stay and headgear.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Timber Yard and Sawyers Cabin, looking north-west, the new colliery waste tip can be seen in the distance. This tip was established in the 1940’s-50’s when the previous two tips, one opposite the colliery and the other at the top end of the Abertillery Park extension reached their limit. The waste was …

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Railway Sidings, looking north. The lower end of Bournville village can be seen in the distance.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Coal Preparation Plant and the Bradford Breaker building (left). The Bradford Breaker was housed in the tall building seen in the image, it was a sort of tumbler with holes, the coal and small waste would drop though the holes and the tumbler would retain the large boulders which were ejected from …

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Coal Preparation Plant. The modern looking green silo (far right) was the cement bunker for mixing cement into the waste to solidify the mixture before going up the tip. This was a precaution in consequence to the Aberfan Disaster in October 1966.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Coal Preparation Plant, the Flight Filling Station and Engine House.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The entrance portal at the Head of the Drift. This drift went from the surface at Rose Heyworth Colliery to below ground at Cwmtillery to connect both collieries under the Mynydd James mountain.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Drift Entrance, looking down the drift into Cwmtillery Colliery. The drift was 4,965′ feet long at a 1 in 5 gradient. To the right of the image can be seen recently dismantled Meco Conveyor belt structure, also the Cable Conveyor Belt which ran from Cwmtillery to Rose Heyworth, powered by the huge …