History of the Gwent Collieries

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – Fitting Shop (left) Welding Shop (middle) and the Tool Maintenance Cabin (far right).

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – A view of the Tool Maintenance Cabin, Welding Shop, Fitting Shop and Blacksmith Shop looking south-east. The houses of bottom Areal View can be seen (top left).

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The small Crane and Forklift parked-up outside the Carpenters Shop. The Painters Cabin on the far left.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – Showing the Railway Lines, the old Weighbridge Cabin and Shunter’s Cabin in the foreground.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – A view looking north from the old waste tip looking at the back of the colliery and railway lines.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – A view looking south, looking down the railway lines what is now the main A467 road.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The Stores. A view of the back of the stores from the old waste tip.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – Shops and Stores etc, looking south-east from the old waste tip.

Rose Heyworth Colliery. Rose Heyworth Colliery – The main entrance from Rose Heyworth Road.  

Abertillery New Mine – Rose Heyworth and Cwmtillery Collieries Shaft Depth Details Both collieries, Rose Heyworth and Cwmtillery had always been connected since the Rose Heyworth Colliery was established and sunk in 1874-75. At that time Mr Joseph Wallace (Manager of Cwmtillery Colliery) and Mr William Adams (Mining Engineer of Cardiff) drove a connecting tunnel from Cwmtillery to the newly …