	Glengarw Colliery	Index	Glengarw Colliery

Glengarw Colliery

Location:	Blaengarw 12½ miles [20 km] SW of Merthyr Tydfil
Map Ref:	(Sheet 170 Vale of Glamorgan West) SS901925, 51° 37' 12" N, 3° 35' 16" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Glenavon Garw Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Household, Steam. (113,500 tons)
Employment:	1923 - 663 (563 below, 100 surface)
	1933 - 663 (563 below, 100 surface)
	1940 - Slant - 663 (563 below, 100 surface)
	1947 - 488 (423 below, 65 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!

						Hamilton, Alexander, 06 Jul 1912, aged 40, Surface Foreman, Whilst he was assisting, with a tram at a tumbler another full tram ran into him and knocked him through on to the screens
						Hawkins, Albert, 22 Nov 1907, aged 28, Collier, Fall of roof. At face. While cutting coal at the face, a wedge-shape stone of about two cwts. fell upon his head and fractured his skull. The roof supports were not set to the maximum distance arranged under the Special Rules for this mine. The props should not have exceeded five feet apart, but an area of 60 square feet of roof was unsupported. Victoria seam. Naked lights
						Hemery, G. H., 21 Jan 1925, aged 49, Collier, Working on piece of coal when corner was discharged and killed him
						Hughes, Cadwalladr, 06 Feb 1911, aged 21, Collier, Fall of side at working face. Two sprags were crushed out
						James, George Edward, 28 Dec 1926, aged 34, Assistant repairer, One of a party detailed to fix extra timbers where a collar was bending and to clean up roadway to take up a but of soft bottom - a new pair of timbers had been set close to bent collar and he was cleaning road when there was a sudden fall crushing new timber
						Jones, Arthur, 02 Oct 1912, aged 55, Labourer, Fall of roof at face. He was stowing rubbish in skip of heading, when a large stone fell from two slants and caused fatal injuries, from which he died the same day
						Lewis, John, 23 Dec 1926, aged 48, Repairer, Going to work along with others when warned not to go up an incline as journey was off rails but they went on and journey started and he was killed by trams
						Parry, Richard, 19 May 1914, aged 25, Haulier, Fall of roof at the junction of two headings, as he was hitching his horse to some trams
						Young, William, 03 Apr 1926, aged 26, Machineman, He and three others were connecting conveyor engine and troughs in order to move whole forward to new turning - they had slackened the jack screws of engine and then hit off stamping props and started moving the engine when a large stone fell and killed him

						9 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre (CMHRC) and are marked with . The CMHRC is available here.

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Credits

Sources:

1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), Swansea District (No. 11) by J. Dyer Lewis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), South Wales District (No. 7) by W. N. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website