Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947
Name | Opened | Closed (Merged) | ||
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Bargoed | 1904 | November | 1949 | |
Bargoed, North & South | 1897 | June | 1977 | |
Beynon | 1922 | April | 1973 | |
Elliot | 1883 | April | 1967 | |
Groesfaen | 1902 | November | 1968 | |
Islwyn | 1888 | December | 1948 | |
Llanover | 1910 | May | 1929 | Bought by Markham & Oakdale Collieries |
Marine | 1887 | March | 1989 | |
Markham | 1910 | September | 1985 | |
McLaren | 1897 | (July) | (1958) | |
McLaren Merthyr | 1897 | 1970 | ||
Ogilvie | 1919 | March | 1975 | |
Pochin | 1876 | July | 1964 | |
Ty Trist | 1834 | January | 1959 | |
Waun Llwyd | 1874 | (December) | (1963) | Merged with Marine |
West Blaina, Red Ash | 1890 | April | 1948 |
See also:
Abernant Colliery Markham
Bedwellty Pits Tredegar
Coalbrook Vale Collieries Nantglo
Glyn Colliery Brynmawr
Griffin Collieries Blaina
Hollybush Colliery Argoed
Lower Deep Colliery
Llyn Colliery Nantyglo
Nantyglo & Nantyglo Deep Collieries Nantyglo
Sun & North Blaina Colliery
Sirhowy Valley Collieries
Small collieries of the Sirhowy Valley
Tredegar Collieries
Upper Deep Colliery
Whitworth Colliery (merged into Ty Trist)
The Industrial Background of Tredegar
The state of the coalfield in 1985 following the strike
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