No 9 Colliery

This was a small pit that was worked in the 1860s by Fothergill and Company. In 1889 the No.9 Pit and Level was owned by the Aberdare Works and Collieries Company and produced 160,054 tons of coal while in 1894 it produced 161,153 tons of coal. It worked the Six-Feet, Bute, Seven-Feet and Nine-Feet seams using the long wall method of coal extraction and safety lamps. The downcast shaft was 18 feet by 11 feet 9 inches and 360 feet deep while the upcast shaft was 10 feet 3 inches in diameter and 390 feet deep.

Some of those that were killed at this mine:

• 1/6/1878 Jonathan Jones, 54, coal trimmer, run over by wagons.
• 1/9/1883 J. Roach, 18, haulier, run over by trams.
• 23/4/1885 John Jones, aged 36, collier, fall of the roof.
• 12/9/1888 David Philips, aged 37, collier, fall of the roof.
• 28/2/1889 Morgan Harris, 16, trimmer, run over by wagons.
• 16/5/1890 William Thomas, aged 27, ripper, William Rees, aged 23, haulier, explosion.
• 1/10/1890 Thomas Richards, aged 25, collier, fall of roof.
• 28/11/1890 James Davies, 43, ripper, fall of roof.
• 13/12/1890 Thomas Williams, aged 67, labourer, fall of the roof.
• 22/8/1891 John Morgan, aged 27, collier, fall of the roof.
• 24/8/1892 Thomas Richards, 18, haulier, fall of the roof.
• 28/8/1894 Thomas Owen, 51, collier, fall of the roof.
• 18/11/1896 David W. Jones, aged 21, collier, fall of the roof.

Some statistics:

• 1899: Manpower: 17.
• 1900: Manpower: 234.
• 1901: Manpower: 280.
• 1902: Manpower: 284.
• 1905: Manpower: 457.

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