Tytalwyn Drift
Bryndu, Bridgend. (SS 8571 8496)
This was a drift of the Ton Phillip Colliery that employed 37 men in 1907 and was managed by E. Morgan and employed 261 men in 1913 when owned by the Ton Phillip Colliery Company Limited. In 1918 its manpower figures have been merged into Ton Phillip but in 1920 it employed 250 men. It then disappears from my listings until 1927 when it employed 250 with the same manager as Ton Phillip – D. Edwards. In 1929 it was shown as being owned by the Coytrahen Park Colliery Company and was being dismantled, and the company wound up.
In 1945 No.1 employed 16 men and No.3 employed 5 men. In 1945/1947 it is shown as being owned by the Tytalwyn Colliery Company of Porthcawl and employed 23 men in 1948. They were abandoned in January 1949.
It worked the No.3 Rhondda seam at a thickness of between 31 inches to 48 inches. Please see the Ton Phillip Colliery page.
Some statistics:
- 1903: Manpower: 45.
- 1905: Manpower: 99.
- 1909: Manpower: 138.
- 1910: Manpower: 187.
- 1911: Manpower: 192.
- 1912: Manpower: 291.
- 1913: Manpower: 261.
- 1920/2: Manpower: 250.
- 1923: Manpower: 755 with Ton Phillip.
- 1924: Manpower: 758 with Ton Phillip.
- 1927: Manpower: 403 with Ton Phillip.
- 1928: Manpower: 31.
- 1945: Manpower: 21.
- 1948: Manpower: 23.
Information supplied by Ray Lawrence and used here with his permission.
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