A lot of Welsh life has been lived underground, from ancient cave dwellings to people mining for gold, copper and coal. Welsh Mines and Museums UK.

Llechwedd Slate Caverns - world famous underground attraction in Snowdonia, North Wales.

If anyone has photographs of other Welsh collieries or additional information and would like to share it with others by placing on this web site, please get in ...

“Black gold,” some called the coal found in the Rhondda and Cynon Valleys of South Wales during the mid-nineteenth century. The invention of coal-powered steam ...

Celtic Energy Limited is the leading Coal Mining Company in South Wales. We produce over 1 million tonnes of high quality coal per year from our sites in South Wales ...

The leading coal mining company in South Wales. Operations – Surface Coal Mining. Celtic Energy operate three surface coal mining sites; ...

Amgueddfa Cymru is a family of seven museums located throughout Wales.

The result of the strikes in Wales was privatization of the coal industry, a dramatic decline in the number of jobs and the final disappearance of coal mining from ...

An Explosive Combination: Coal Mining in North Wales Coal has shaped the history of north-east Wales. Coal is a valuable resource. As early as the fourteenth ...

Discover coal mine employee records and accident reports, and learn about the history of coal mining and miners in England, Scotland and Wales.

The scars left behind by the collieries of Wales’ Rhondda Valley are beginning to ... Today the coal mines are silent, ... British Heritage Travel; Twitter ...

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Photographs and a brief historical account of more than 200 Welsh coal mines, plus stories poems and a list of colliery disasters.

A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales, writes Guy Shrubsole - by digging them all out from above from ...

Blaenavon’s Big Pit tells the fascinating story of coal mining and what it was like to work in harsh conditions. Don a helmet, cap lamp, belt and “self rescuer ...

Protesters dressed as canaries 'shut down production' at UK's largest open cast coal mine. ... have to import this coal so it is better these jobs are kept in Wales."

The coal mining industry burgeoned throughout the Industrial Revolution and into the 19th century, ... then the oldest mine in Wales, had to close.

The Senghenydd colliery disaster, ... South Wales miners, ... had not implemented the changes needed to the ventilation fans as demanded by the Coal Mines Act ...

3 Abstract This research reviews the development of the opencast coal mining in Wales. It briefly looks through the historical development of the industry and the ...

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Coal mining in the United Kingdom dates back to Roman times and occurred in many ... The last deep mine in South Wales closed when the coal was exhausted in ...

Visit us for free at Big Pit, a real coal mine with underground tours, miner guides and a warm welcome. Explore south Wales’ history of coal and industry, and enjoy ...

Nov 25, 2010· An article about coal mining in Wales in the twentieth century, on the BBC Wales History website

The second half of the 16th century saw the beginning of an organised coal mining industry in Wales as distinct from the ... The coal mines in the Kilvey area to ...

The long, slow death of the UK coal industry ... closure with the option of reopening later – in January of Aberpergwm drift mine in South Wales, ...

My School Project looking at the hardship of coal mining in South Wales.

Australia and coal; New South Wales and coal; Northern Territory and coal; ... Existing coal mines in New South Wales Coal & Allied mines. Coal & Allied, ...

On this day in History, Coal miners die in Wales on Oct 14, 1913. Learn more about what happened today on History.

Coal mining: Coal mining, ... s massive coal-mining operations, whereas underground mining predominates in the long-established New South Wales coal industry.

The Gleision mining tragedy which killed four men a year ago was shocking, but also a reminder that the Welsh coal industry still exists, says BBC Wales' Nick Servini.

Last week, four coal miners went to their deaths, overwhelmed by floodwaters three hundred feet underground in the Gleision colliery, South Wales.

Coal mines in NSW produced a record 145.4 Mt of saleable coal in 2009-10 worth around $13.2 billion. Map of NSW coalfields. Community consultation;

Coal-mining in the South Wales coalfield was a dangerous occupation with lifelong health implications. Between 1849-53, miners over the age of 25 in the Merthyr ...

Photographer Richard Jones’s Energy+Notion project tells the story of energy in Wales, from the remnants of coal mining that shaped its towns and landscapes to the ...