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 | |
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) | |
West Blaina, Red Ash | 1890 | April | 1948 |
See also:
Coalbrook Vale Collieries Nantglo
Glyn Colliery Brynmawr
Griffin Collieries Blaina
Lower Deep Colliery
Llyn Colliery Nantyglo
Nantyglo & Nantyglo Deep Collieries Nantyglo
Sun & North Blaina Colliery
Small collieries of the Sirhowy Valley
Upper Deep Colliery
The state of the coalfield in 1985 following the strike
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