Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa'r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure...
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transported down by rail. Northeast Wales also had its own coalfield and Tower Colliery (closed January 2008) near Hirwaun is regarded by many as the oldest...
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companies placed two collieries on the land, the Tower (Later known as East Brookside) and the Brookside. Near the collieries, Tower began to develop a...
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geological complexity adding to their problems. The last deep mine, at Tower Colliery on the north crop, ceased mining in January 2008. However, a few small...
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Blackhall Colliery is a village on the North Sea coast of County Durham, in England. It is situated on the A1086 between Horden and Hartlepool. To the...
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Svengali Good Arrows Aberfan, ITV Wales/Sky News, 2006 The Last Miner, The Tower Colliery Story, ITV Wales, 2007 Soccer Sunday, ITV Wales, 2004–2008 The Story...
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associated sidings, plus junctions for: The Hirwaun Ironworks railway Tower Colliery Penderyn quarry tramway Tir Herbert brickworks Hirwaun Common railway...
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Hirwaun (section The tower blocks)
deep coal mine left in Wales was the nearby Tower Colliery, which British Coal shut in 1994. The Colliery was then bought-out by its workers, after which...
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the original TVR route, beyond the former Abercwmboi Halt to access Tower Colliery, the line diverts onto the route of the former Vale of Neath Railway...
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Tyrone O'Sullivan (section Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd)
Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Chairman of Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd., the owners of Tower Colliery. O'Sullivan was born in Abercwmboi, in the heart...
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Peckett & Sons. Three were built; no. 2124 for Tower Colliery in 1951 and nos. 2150 and 2151 for Mardy Colliery in 1954. No. 2150 has been preserved and is...
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closed completely in August 1986 after coal from Mardy Colliery was raised through Tower Colliery. In 2005, RCT council constructed the A4223 Porth and...
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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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Dean in Fife Glenmuckloch in Dumfriesshire Tower Colliery site in Hirwaun The deep mine at Tower Colliery closed in 2008, but there is a plan to build...
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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 two...
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employed by The Marquess of Bute to extract coal from Tower Colliery around the 1890s. The Tower Colliery and was famously the subject of a worker's buy-out...
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miners' strike (1984–85), and the last 'traditional' deep-shaft mine, Tower Colliery, closed in January 2008. Despite the intense industrialisation of the...
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are left in the valleys since the closure in 2008 of Tower Colliery in the Cynon Valley. Tower had been bought by the workers in 1994, despite government...
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13 December 2016. "Tower Colliery – background". Archived from the original on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2010. Tower Colliery – case study "Archived...
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(born 1934) – sprinter Tyrone O'Sullivan (born c. 1945) – Chairman of Tower Colliery, lived in Cwmaman for many years John Derrick (1963–2017) – cricketer...
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steeply graded branch lines around Swansea and Cardiff, to collieries such as Tower Colliery, Coedbach and Cwmbargoed. They operated merry-go-round trains...
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miners. In January 2008, the South Wales Valleys last deep pit mine, Tower Colliery in Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff closed with the loss of 120 jobs. 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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arriving there completely". Inspiration for the album is credited to "Tower Colliery, Cynon Valley, South Wales". Being the first album since the departure...
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Valley; and the Cwmgwrach Colliery via the Onllwyn Washery and the Tower Opencast mine based at the site of the original Tower Colliery. Further stocks were...
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O'Sullivan (1945–2023), Socialist and Chairman of Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd., the owners of Tower Colliery. Vince O'Sullivan (born 1957), American racewalker...
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serving Tower Colliery at Hirwaun, which was then accessed by the former Taff Vale line. This was also retained to serve various collieries and a coking...
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pits closed in spite of a UK-wide strike against closures. Aberpergwm Colliery is the last deep mine in Wales. The South Wales Coalfield was not the only...
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Easington Colliery is a village in County Durham, England, known for a history of coal mining. It is situated to the north of Horden, a short distance...
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