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Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s. Visitors can experience the life of the coal miners on a guided tour through one of the mine shafts of the Lewis Merthyr colliery. Tours are led by former ...
Tumble developed in the 19th century to house the anthracite miners who were employed at the nearby Dynant Fach and Great Mountain collieries. [1] Tumble was once served by Tumble Railway Station, a station built on the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway to allow the transportation of coal from the local mines to Llanelli Docks.
Evan Thomas (died after 1881) was a Welsh ironmonger who became an inventor and manufacturer of safety lamps for miners. He was the original proprietor of the Cambrian Lamp Works, established in Aberdare in 1860.
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Category: Welsh miners. 3 languages. ... By occupation: Miners. Pages in category "Welsh miners" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.
Evans was born into a large family of seven children and from the age of thirteen worked as a coal miner. [2] In 1911, he began taking part-time classes at the Swansea School of Art and in 1912 some of his drawings were printed in the Cambria Daily Leader. [3] After ten years working in local pits, Evans attended Swansea School of Art.
South Wales Miners' Museum The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales Coalfield . It is located at Cynonville within the Afan Forest Park Visitor Centre in the Afan Forest Park , near the small village of Cymmer in Neath Port Talbot .
Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales.A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust.