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Dyllas Colleiry

Location:	Aberdare 2½ miles [4 km] WSW of Merthyr Tydfil
Map Ref:	(Sheet 160 Breacon Beacons) SO004054, 51° 44' 17" N, 3° 26' 33" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Waynes Merthyr Co., Ltd.
	D. R. Llewellyn and Sons Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Coal: Steam.
Employment:	1896 - 185 (161 below, 24 surface)
	1923 - 179 (125 below, 54 surface)
	1933 - 145 (100 below, 45 surface)
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!

						Evans, David, 21 Jan 1915, Repairer
						Evans, Evan, 20 Mar 1914, aged 30, Fireman, He was overtaken and fatally injured by a journey of trams on a self-acting incline. He died the same day
						Jones, Johah, 27 Nov 1912, aged 44, Fireman, The hitching plate broke, and the trams overrunning the bar-hook caught him as he was walking up the drift with another workman who was slightly injured
						Jones, William, 21 Oct 1878, aged 12, Collier, Killed by fall of coal
						Vaughan, Thomas, 13 Jul 1873, aged 68, Labourer, Killed by trams on surface

						5 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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Credits

Sources:

1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), South Wales District by Thomas E. Wales, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), South Wales District by Thomas E. Wales, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
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
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023), South Wales Division (No. 5) by Dr. W. N. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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