Glyngwyn Colliery

Opened by Nixon’s Navigation Coal Company in 1885 in the No.3 Rhondda seam for house coal, this level employed 112 men underground and 5 men on the surface in 1896 when managed by James Davies. In 1908 it employed 211 men underground and 15 men on the surface when managed by F.W. Ball. Mr. Ball was still the manager in 1911. It employed 258 men in 1913 when it was managed by A.A. Jenkins. In 1915/6 it employed 308 men and was managed by A. Williams and 210 men underground and 17 men on the surface in 1918 when still managed by A.H. Williams.

It then disappeared from the lists until 1921 when it reappears and in 1923 it only employed 7 men working underground and 2 men at the surface of the mine, only to close when it abandoned the No.3 Rhondda seam in December 1925 having previously abandoned the No.3 Rhondda Rider seam in July 1915.

Some statistics:

• 1889: Output: 17,373 tons.
• 1894: Output: 21,577 tons.
• 1896: Manpower: 117.
• 1899: Manpower: 101.
• 1900: Manpower: 158.
• 1901: Manpower: 189.
• 1902: Manpower: 187.
• 1903: Manpower: 206.
• 1905: Manpower: 256.
• 1908: Manpower: 226.
• 1909: Manpower: 226.
• 1910: Manpower: 229.
• 1911: Manpower: 233.
• 1912: Manpower: 286.
• 1913: Manpower: 258.
• 1915: Manpower: 308.
• 1916: Manpower: 308.
• 1918: Manpower: 227.
• 1920: Manpower: 753.
• 1922: Manpower: 193.
• 1923: Manpower: 9.
• 1924: Manpower: 264.
• 1925: Manpower: 264.

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