Miscellaneous

Rose Heyworth Colliery Surface Plan. Abertillery New Mine – Rose Heyworth Section. Rose Heyworth Colliery surface plan. The one and only original N.C.B. plan. Size 6′ x 2′ foot.  Rose Heyworth Colliery and Cwmtillery Colliery had always been connected below ground from the time of the former’s sinking between 1874-75, though in 1959 a new drift was driven between the …

National Coal Board File. N.C.B. File South Western Division, Area No6 – International Exchange of Students visit 1961. The file contains detailed information and plans on the Marine Colliery Trepanner and the Abertillery New Mine (Cwmtillery Section) Midget Miner.   This file has about seventy pages of information on the Marine Colliery and Abertillery New Mine (Cwmtillery Section), with many …

South Wales Collieries – Mobile Winder Information File. This official N.C.B file for the use of the mobile winder in the case of any accident of breakdown of the fixed-winders was compiled by the N.C.B for the purpose of cataloguing the details of each shaft in the collieries of South Wales that was open in the early to late 1980’s. …

Miners Domestic Firewood Blocks. There was an unwritten agreement in the collieries of South Wales that each working miner was entitled to one block of wood per day for domestic use, for fire-wood. The blocks (as seen above in the featured image) were 9″ x 6″ inches on average and were cut by the working miners, from timber props which …

Cwmtillery Colliery Steam Winder Indicator. This brass hand was used to indicate the position of the cages in the shaft during winding. This indicator hand is from Cwmtillery Colliery, Abertillery. These brass indicator hands were taken from the colliery when the steam winding engines were replaced with electrical winders sometime in the 1940’s or 1950’s. There were two winders in …

N.C.B. Coal Sack. An old hessian N.C.B. coal sack with name plate and copper rivets. There is also faint N.C.B. lettering imprinted on the front of the sack. Size 31″ x 26″ inches. The National Coal Board used to give concessionary coal allowances to its employees. The amount of the allowance of coal varied throughout the United Kingdom. In Wales …

An Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co Ltd Ink Blotter. The sticker states it is a combined paperweight and ink blotter made by the London Sand Blast Decorative Glass Works Ltd, 58a Grey’s Inn Road, WC. Made of glass and a chalk, plaster material. Size 4″ x 3″ x 1″ inches. The Company. The Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & …

A Dramline Crossrail Junction. This is an old section of a “Bridge Rail” dramline crossrail junction for the underground transportation system. The piece was used in a coalmine or level and laid at the section of rail where it split into two at junctions or partings etc. It has holes for it to be attached to wooden sleepers with dog-nails.  …

Section of Haulage Rail. This is a small section of a bridge rail for the colliery haulage transportation system. Made of iron. Size 7″ long x 1 1/2″ high x 3″ inches wide. The lengths of rail (typically around 10′ feet long) were butted together and were then attached to wooden sleepers by the use of dog nails. The bridge …

Section of Haulage Rail. This is a small section of a flange rail for the colliery haulage transportation system. Made of iron. Size 7″ long x 2″ high x 2″ inches wide. The lengths of rail (typically around 10′ feet long) were held together with a pair of fish plates and four dome-head rail bolts. The rails were then attached …