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Ocean Colliery

Treharris, Merthyr Tydfil

 
 
 

 

   
 
 
 
Ocean Colliery 1991

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1991

(Courtesy of the David Thomas Collection)

   

   

   

   

 
 
No 1 South Pit winding gear and workshops.

 

Deep Navigation - Last Pit Pony - July 1973

The man is Ron Allot and the young boy is Neil Edwards.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 
 

Pit Hooter.

Neil Edwards stands by the pit hooter.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

     
 

     

The Pit Hooter now on the Treharris Boys & Girls Club house (2012)

It is still used to 'Blow' in the New Year!

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 
 

Deep Navigation - Afternoon Shift Fitters and Electricians - August 1973

L-R:    Ianto - Mal - Dick - Skip.

Standing: David Phillips (known as 'Parkins')

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Sid Wilkins and Crown Price Akahito of Japan

(Photograph Courtesy of Phil Wilkins)

 

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Deep Navigation Colliery - Centenary - 1979

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Building Conveyors at Deep Navigation Colliery

L-R:        Mal Harrison, Steve Fluck, Dick Edwards, Dai Roberts, Kerri Thomas & Peter Rees

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Building Conveyors at Deep Navigation Colliery

L-R:            Steve Fluck, Nigal Carter, Kerri Thomas, Peter Rees, Dick Edwards & Flaney.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Changing No 1 Shaft at Deep Navigation - 1985

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

Removing the Cage Gear

Removing the Cage Gear

Installing the Skip

 

Coupling Skip to Pit Rope

The Skip in Place

 

Deep Navigation Colliery

(Photographs Courtesy of Gareth Evans)

 

Dosco Machine

The machine was delivered complete to Deep Navigation and had to be driven off the low loader. It was only used at Deep Navigation for a

year, being one of the few things that was brought back up, when the pit closed in March 1991.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

Andrew West & Gareth Bishop

The Dosco

Gareth Bishop at the Controls

 

Deep Navigation Colliery - No. 1 Headgear from Penn Street

(Photographs Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Deep Navigation - Geoff Bennett at the Winder Controls - March 1991

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Deep Navigation - Underground Visit - March 1991

Geoff and Dorothy Bennett can be seen in the photographs.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Closure of Deep Navigation Colliery

(Photograph Courtesy of Gareth Evans)

 

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Photographs of the

Deep Navigation

Closure March

 
 

Deep Navigation - Demolition

(Photograph Courtesy of Robert Amos)

 

No.1 & No.2 Headgear Demolition

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

No.2 Headgear Demolished

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

 

No.1 Headgear Pulled Down

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

No.1 Headgear Pulled Down

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Piles of Hard Core ready to fill the shafts at Deep Navigation

(Photographs Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Dump Trucks filling No. 1 (South) Shaft

It took a week, working 12 hours a day, to fill the shafts.

(Photographs Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Men Working Filling the Shafts

Known are, L-R: Mike Wheeler, Alan Tudor, ?, Brian Foster.

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

Deep Navigation - Capping No 2 Shaft - April 1995

(Photographs Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 
 

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