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  • The large buildings in this view are the electrical store, compressor house and the winding engine house. In the centre is the stack from the boiler house, and to the left is the north head-gear.
View of the surviving buildings at Cefn Coed Colliery, Crynant
  • This is the only known example of a Welsh-made capstan engine. It was purchased in 1926-7 and was used during the sinking of Cefn Coed Colliery. When the mine was in use it was kept as a stand-by winder, in case of problems with the main gear.
Rhondda Cubitt winder, Cefn Coed Colliery, Crynant
  • This horizontal steam engine was manufactured in Wigan in 1927. It is the only remaining working steam winder in the south Wales anthracite coalfield and was used to winch cages up and down the pit shaft.
Worsley Mesne winding engine, Cefn Coed Colliery, Crynant [image 1 of 3]
Pit heads at Hughesovka, showing winding gear, c. 1913
  • The Albion Colliery at Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd, was the scene of one of the worst mining disasters in Britain. On 23 June 1894 a massive explosion killed 281 men and boys. A further explosion on 10 November 1906 killed six men. The colliery was opened in 1887 by the Albion Steam Coal Company. It was later owned by the Powell Duffryn Company before passing into the hands of the National Coal Board in 1947. The pit closed in 1966. Further reading: http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Photo.htm
The Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, after the explosion of 1894
  • This photograph shows the winding gear of 'Dan's Muck Hole' at Pwllgwaun Colliery, Pontypridd. This colliery, named after Dan Thomas, had a shaft a mere 45 yards deep and was also entered by a level beginning near what is now the grandstand of Pontypridd Rugby Football Club's ground at Sardis Road. The colliery was worked from 1873 until 1950. Source: 'The Old Photographs Series: Pontypridd', compiled from the Collection of Pontypridd Historical and Cultural Centre by Simon Eckley and the staff of the Centre (Chalford Publishing, Stroud, 1994).
'Dan's Muck Hole', Pwllgwaun Colliery, Pontypridd, c. 1913