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Crynant Colliery

Location:	Crynant, near Neath 11 miles [18 km] NE of Swansea
Map Ref:	(Sheet 170 Vale of Glamorgan West) SN796049, 51° 43' 47" N, 3° 44' 36" W
Opened:	1880
Closed:	Mar 1956
Pits:	Lower Level
	Upper Level, locn: (Sheet 160 Breacon Beacons) SN798054, opened: 1890, closed: 1895
Owners:	Crynant Colliery Co., (Jebb and Dickinson)
	Crynant Colliery Co., Ltd.
	Evans and Bevan Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Anthracite, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Anthracite, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Anthracite.
	1905 - Coal: Anthracite.
	1910 - Coal: Anthracite.
	1915 - Coal: Anthracite.
	1947 - Coal: Anthracite, Steam. (27,000 tons)
Employment:	1894 - 79 (72 below, 7 surface)
	1896 - 60 (54 below, 6 surface)
	1900 - 72 (65 below, 7 surface)
	1905 - 92 (82 below, 10 surface)
	1910 - 151 (137 below, 14 surface)
	1915 - 191 (169 below, 22 surface)
	1923 - 214 (174 below, 40 surface)
	1933 - 190 (150 below, 40 surface)
	1937 - 190 (150 below, 40 surface)
	1940 - 190 (150 below, 40 surface)
	1947 - 112 (85 below, 27 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Ynisarwed Seam
	1910 - Ynisarwed Seam
	1915 - Ynisarwed Seam
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Collins, Bertram, 21 Nov 1912, aged 15, Assistant Collier, Fall of side at working face. The lad was allowed to stand too near the coal face when his comrade was wedging down coal. A piece of coal fell upon the boy, killing him
						Davies, William, 24 Jan 1906, aged 36, Collier, Fall of roof. At face; rock 12 ft. long, from 3½ ft. to 15 in. wide, 3½ ft. in thickness, fell close to face from between two unseen "slips." One prop only near the face; none under part which fell
						Gregory, Ivor, 14 May 1912, aged 16, Collier Boy, He was run over and killed on a self-acting incline
						Hopkins, Daniel, 07 Jul 1898, aged 25, Haulier, On incline while endeavouring to detach and save his horse from a runaway journey which the horse had dragged over the brow of the incline
						Jenkins, James, 17 Aug 1896, aged 46, Collier, Fall on road (clift 2 ft. x 1ft. x 18in thick), while pushing a tram out the tram having knocked out a side prop. No. 2 Rhondda seam

						5 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Swansea District (No. 11) by J. Dyer Lewis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), South Wales District (No. 7) by W. N. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1937 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian