Tynewydd Colliery

Ogmore Vale (93049095)

This pit was sunk in 1865 by the Llynvi. Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company Limited, and closed by North’s Navigation Collieries (1899) Limited in 1906. It worked the No.3 Rhondda seam at a thickness of between 28 inches to 36 inches.

In 1893 the manager was John Thomas Onions and in 1896 it employed 159 men underground and 45 men on the surface the manager was D. Simms Rees.

It abandoned the No.2 Rhondda seam in June 1901and the No.3 Rhondda seam in January 1905.

Some of those who died at this mine:

• 26/7/1867, Richard Landers, aged 39, labourer, killed by trams on surface.
• 4/9/1868, William Howells, aged 20, collier, roof fall.
• 10/11/1874, H. Burnett, collier, shotfiring incident.
• 17/6/1876, J. Norton, aged 32, collier, shotfiring incident.
• 28/3/1882, Evan Jones, aged 14, haulier, run over by trams.
• 7/11/1882, G.M. Gibbon, aged 16, haulier, crushed by a tram.
• 29/10/1884, Edward Hyde, aged 24, collier, shotfiring incident.
• 24/7/1888. Henry Branch, aged 12, pump boy, roof fall.
• 19/7/1899, Richard Jones, aged 70, flueman, roof fall.
• 28/8/1896, Henry Davey, aged 47, screenman, killed by tram of rubbish on surface.
• 28/9/1897, John J. Lucas, aged 13, collier boy, run over by trams.

Some statistics:

• 1889: Output: 71,376 tons with Caedu.
• 1894: Output: 50,000 tons with Caedu.
• 1896: Manpower: 204.
• 1899: Manpower: 122.
• 1900: Manpower: 124.
• 1901: Manpower: 100.
• 1902: Manpower: 74.
• 1903: Manpower: 67.

Information supplied by Ray Lawrence and used here with his permission.