Mining Items

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 …

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 …

Saxon & Co, Chapel Street, Brynmawr. Saxon & Co, Brynmawr. Dated 1940. A receipt from Saxon & Co Aerated Water Manufacturers, Brynmawr to Beynon’s Colliery Pithead Baths for a quantity of mineral water supplied by the company.

Blaina Council Offices, Blaina Monmouthshire, Water Bill. A water meter account. Dated 31st July 1940. A receipt from Blaina Council Offices to Beynon’s Colliery Pithead Baths via Mr D. J. Griffiths Colliery Offices, Cwmtillery, of payment for water supplied by the council to the baths. It is a quarterly bill for the amount of £24. 11s. 9d for 550,000 gallons …

Lancaster’s Steam Coal Collieries Limited Invoice. The Lower Deep Colliery, Blaina. Dated 19th November 1940. An invoice for the sanctioning of a payment of £723. 3s. 0d. for the supply and delivery of one rolled steel joist head gear, 47′ feet 2″ inches in height from ground level to the centre line of the winding pulley. Also 10″ inch and …

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 & …