and Mardy Colliery Band." The 1984/5 Miners Strike closed the mine for a year, and from 30 June 1986, with all coal being raised at Tower Colliery, the...
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coal mining industry and the development of Mardy Colliery in the late 19th century, but its last pit (Mardy Main) shut in 1990. Maerdy was not originally...
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driven, all coal from Mardy Colliery was also raised at Tower, the two mines effectively working as one coalfield system. Mardy closed as an access shaft...
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Checkweighman (section Mardy Colliery)
unnecessary and was abolished. Eddie Collins Herbert Smith Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones, 1907-1909 Noah Ablett, 1910–1917 Ted Williams, 1917-18 Arthur Horner...
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operated from 1856 to 1957, remaining open as a ventilation shaft for Mardy Colliery until 1989. In 1853, Sam and Joseph Thomas began sinking a pit shaft...
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Jotejanaki Colliery on 28.6.1913 Loyabad Colliery on 16.1.1935 Mahabir Colliery on 13.11.1989 Majri Colliery on 5.8.1953 Makerwal Colliery on 6.7.1942...
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no. 2124 for Tower Colliery in 1951 and nos. 2150 and 2151 for Mardy Colliery in 1954. No. 2150 has been preserved and is named Mardy Monster. According...
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Trade union offices Preceded by Arthur Horner Checkweighman at Mardy Colliery 1919–1920 Succeeded by Bryn Roberts Preceded by William John Agent for the...
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1986 when the line closed completely. Coal from Mardy Colliery was then raised through Tower Colliery. The track was lifted in 1996. Since 2005, the southern...
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Oil Co.Ltd., Waterston NCB Mardy Colliery NCB Tower Colliery – 09/69–10/75 10/75–08/82 08/82 Scrapped at NCB Tower Colliery (08/82) D9531 86A Arnott Young...
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secured his election in absentia as checkweighman at Mardy Colliery, one of the most militant collieries in the Rhondda valleys. To add to the pressure on...
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Thomas Isaac Mardy Jones (21 January 1879 – 26 August 1970) was a British politician and miner. The son of a Welsh miner Thomas Isaac, who later died...
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and collieries opened within the Rhondda. A level is seen as a horizontal cut into a hill or mountain to access a seam of coal, while a colliery consists...
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2016. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2010. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh...
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published by Noah Ablett. Ablett, a one-time checkweighman from the Mardy Colliery in Maerdy, was a founding member of the Plebs' League, a Marxist organisation...
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completely and was lifted from June 1986 after coal from Mardy Colliery was raised through Tower Colliery. In 2005, RCT council constructed the A4223 Porth and...
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at Tower Colliery in a roof collapse. His great-grandfather had also died in a mining accident; he was killed in an explosion at Mardy Colliery in 1885...
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1877-1947 Mardy Colliery in Maerdy (closed 1990, site cleared and now occupied by Avon Rubber); linked underground to Tower Colliery Marine Colliery in Cwm...
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of minimum wage agitation. In 1911, Ablett became a checkweighman at Mardy Colliery in Maerdy and later that year was one of the founders of the Unofficial...
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He was elected as chairman of its Bwllfa lodge; he later moved to Mardy Colliery and again served as chair of the local lodge. From 1957, he worked full-time...
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Jones developed both the Nantmelyn Colliery in Cwmdare in the Aberdare Valley from 1861, and the Mardy Colliery in the Rhondda Fach Valley in 1876. After...
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due to huge debts. 30 June – Mardy Colliery, the last pit in the Rhondda, is closed, but underground links to Tower Colliery in the Cynon Valley enable...
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General Post Office. Carey Richard Powell, Planned Maintenance Officer, Mardy Colliery, No. 4 (Aberdare) Area, South Western Division, National Coal Board...
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Retrieved 20 December 2015. "Avonmouth Docks". 13 November 2016. "Lidgett Colliery". Industrial Railway Society. Retrieved 28 December 2010. "Letters". Industrial...
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all traffic) Maerdy Branch Great Western Railway Porth Junction to Mardy Colliery, via Ynshir, Tylorstown and Ferndale. 13 June 1964 (to passenger traffic)...
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capped in 1977, after serving for 20 years as a ventilation shaft for Mardy Colliery, located in the Rhondda Valley on the opposite side of the mountain...
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started work at Waunllwyd colliery, Ebbw Vale, at the age of 12. Keen to educate himself, he rose to become secretary to a colliery company and in 1913 entered...
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Electricity Board (MANWEB). 21 December - Last underground shift worked at Mardy Colliery. date unknown - Following a referendum, the Vaynor Community Council...
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at Pontypridd. In 1840, the TVR bought the private Ferndale to Maerdy colliery track and then extended it to Porth in 1849. Passenger operations began...
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one of the first members of Cardiff Naturalists' Society. Rees, Thomas Mardy (1959). "ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert". Dictionary of Welsh...
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