History of the Gwent Collieries

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 …

California Colliery. The California Colliery Level (as seen in the centre of the map from 1920) just opposite the Nantyglo Station was opened by Mr Silvanus Jones Jnr in October 1904. In 1915 the collieries were taken over by Silvanus Jones & Co. (S Jones & Co). In November 1920 it was announced that Mr Silvanus Jones of the Woodlands, …

Penybont Cwmtillery – By Product Works, Washery & Coke Ovens. Prior to 1911 the Cwmtillery Coke Ovens were located in the grounds of Cwmtillery Colliery. Following is a Link  to – The Original Coke Ovens at Cwmtillery Colliery The By-Product Plant. The map (left) shows the area in 1901, about ten years before the by-product plant, washery and coke works …

Mr J. P. D. Williams M.E. – General Manager of the Blaina Collieries. Mr J. P. D. Williams was born in 1834 at Nantyglo, Monmouthshire. His family lived on the Garn, Nantyglo and at 11 years of age he started work in the coalmines. His first job was in the “Little Pit” Blaina, under his brother-in-law Mr Thomas Lewis the …