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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

range in South Wales, is situated at the former Tower Colliery coal mining site, housing Phoenix and Tower Flyer. The company was initially granted permission...

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...

associated sidings, plus junctions for: The Hirwaun Ironworks railway Tower Colliery Penderyn quarry tramway Tir Herbert brickworks Hirwaun Common railway...

closed completely in August 1986 after coal from Mardy Colliery was raised through Tower Colliery. In 2005, RCT council constructed the A4223 Porth and...

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...

(born 1934) – sprinter Tyrone O'Sullivan (born c. 1945) – Chairman of Tower Colliery, lived in Cwmaman for many years John Derrick (1963–2017) – cricketer...

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...

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...

51°34′19″N 7°8′54″E / 51.57194°N 7.14833°E / 51.57194; 7.14833 The Ewald Colliery (German: Zeche Ewald) is a disused coal mine in Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia...

O'Sullivan (1945–2023), Socialist and Chairman of Goitre Tower Anthracite Ltd., the owners of Tower Colliery. Vince O'Sullivan (born 1957), American racewalker...

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...

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...

miners' strike (1984–85), and the last 'traditional' deep-shaft mine, Tower Colliery, closed in January 2008. Despite the intense industrialisation of the...

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...

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...

13 December 2016. "Tower Colliery – background". Archived from the original on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2010. Tower Colliery – case study "Archived...

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...

steeply graded branch lines around Swansea and Cardiff, to collieries such as Tower Colliery, Coedbach and Cwmbargoed. They operated merry-go-round trains...

Kellingley Colliery, known affectionately as the 'Big K', was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of Ferrybridge power...

arriving there completely". Inspiration for the album is credited to "Tower Colliery, Cynon Valley, South Wales". Being the first album since the departure...

Mary Somerville 60 052 Goat Fell Glofa Twr The last deep mine in Wales Tower Colliery 60 053 John Reith Nordic Terminal 60 054 Charles Babbage 60 055 Thomas...