Mining Items

The Nantyglo and Blaina Ironworks Company Limited. A receipt for the interest due on debenture coupons. Dated December 1883. The interest of £50 less £1. 0s. 10d was due to Mr George Emmett of Wood Bank, ? illegible place name. That sum is now the equivalent of £5,500 in today’s money. 

Richard Thomas & Co Limited. Messrs Richard Thomas & Co Limited, sales invoice in account with the committee, Beynons Colliery Pithead Baths, Blaina. Dated 14th April 1939. The invoice is for electricity usage of 9314 units for the March 1939 quarter, at the cost of £19. 8s. 1d. It’s the equivalent of £1,200 in today’s money.

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 …

A letter from the Great Western Railway Company’s Deed Department. This letter was sent in connection with a query about the “railway sidings” on land leased by Messrs Clapp & Willams, colliery owners of Abertillery and Six Bells. Dated 21st February 1893.

A letter from the Great Western Railway Company – To the Cwmnantygroes Colliery Six Bells. A letter from the Great Western Railway Company, Assistant Managers Office, Paddington – To the Cwmnantygroes Colliery Six Bells. This letter was sent in connection with a query about the “railway sidings” at Hafod Van Colliery, Six Bells, on land leased by Messrs Clapp & …

A letter from the Great Western Railway Company – To Hafod Van Colliery Six Bells. A letter from the Great Western Railway Company, Assistant Managers Office, Paddington. This letter was sent in connection with a query about the “railway sidings” at Hafod Van Colliery, Six Bells, on land leased by Partridge, Jones & Co Mine owners of Abertillery and Six …

Mr E. Furber. Mr E. Furber a book seller, stationer, newsagent, wholesale and retail tobacconist No.110 High Street, Blaina. Receipt for supplying cigarettes, twist and tobacco to the Beynon’s Colliery Pithead Baths. Dated 15th April 1938.

Mr E. Furber. Mr E. Furber a book seller, stationer, newsagent, wholesale and retail tobacconist No.110 High Street, Blaina. Receipt for supplying cigarettes, twist and tobacco to the Beynon’s Colliery, Pithead Baths. Dated 30th January 1940.

Electricians Lock-Out Safety Tool. Made from steel. The pad-lock is made from plastic and brass. Size – Lock-Out Tool 7 1/2″ x 3″. Pad Lock 5″ x 2″ inches. All the electrical panels on-off switches had safety holes which enabled the electrician to clamp this tool through the panel front and switch and would place a padlock through the holes …

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 …