| Merthyr Vale
Colliery |
| (Nixon's Navigation), Merthyr
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1984
Miner's Strike |
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Court Royal
Miners' Welfare Hotel |
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To Visit The
Merthyr Vale
Colliery Railway |
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Tony Richards'
Photographs of
Merthyr Vale Colliery |
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Merthyr
Vale Colliery - 1989.
E-Mailed
By Wayne Morris. |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery Feeder
Pond - circa 1987-88
View from the main road looking
over the Feeder Pond towards the intake shaft.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Nigel Moss) |
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| Young Workers |
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| Nixon's Navigation Colliery.
(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove.) |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery
(Photograph
Courtesy of the Kenneth J Gunter Collection) |
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| Merthyr Vale
Colliery - 1903 |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery
Note the Crecraft's Travelling
Magic Lantern Show in the foreground.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Dave Lewis) |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery 1970.
Shaftsmen and Banksmen Pit Top.
from left to right.
Glyn Jones, Bert Hughes Banksmen, Dai Samuels Fireman, Tommy Harris Pitman
Young boy Gerald Kirwan, Jack Kirwan Foreman Pitman.
(Photograph and
names courtesy of Derek Broad) |
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Merthyr Vale Miners
(Photograph
Courtesy of David Moon) |
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| Colliery Officials - 16th April 1897. |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery Band -
Date Unknown
(Photograph
Courtesy of Jill Peck) |
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Taking down the chimney stack
- 1967.
(Photograph
courtesy of Clive Thomas) |
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No 1 pit, 16ft Headgear
Sheave. October 1980.
(Photograph
courtesy of Derek Broad) |
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Night Stokers - 1912.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Maureen Hughes) |
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| Merthyr Vale Colliery |
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Cap Lamp Recharging Units
The yellow cover indicates that
the person was not coal face trained.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Nigel Moss) |
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Victor Bernard Moss Reading
his Redundancy Letter
(Photograph
Courtesy of Nigel Moss) |
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Merthyr Vale Colliery - From
Glyndwr Street
(Photograph
Courtesy of Alan Williams) |
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A View of Merthyr Vale
Colliery
(Photograph
Courtesy of Don Chamberlain) |
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