	Llest Colliery	Index	Llest Colliery

Llest Colliery

Location:	Pontyrhyl, Garw Valley 14 miles [22 km] SW of Merthyr Tydfil
Map Ref:	(Sheet 170 Vale of Glamorgan West) SS906898, 51° 35' 46" N, 3° 34' 46" W
Opened:	1880
Closed:	1925
Owners:	Llest Coal Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household.
	1896 - Coal: Household.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1894 - 305 (272 below, 33 surface)
	1896 - 154 (127 below, 27 surface)
	1900 - 300 (251 below, 49 surface)

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

18th

Aug

1899

Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light, 19 lives lost (Show Names)

Those entries marked with , signify a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Bates, David, 12 Dec 1881, aged 40, Collier, Fall of roof
						Bissett, Herbert, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Davies, Evan, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Davies, Hugh, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Davies, Rees, 22 Sep 1893, aged 48, Collier, By outburst of coal [More information ...]
						Davies, William, 22 Sep 1893, aged 19, Collier, By outburst of coal [More information ...]
						Evans, David, 25 Sep 1908, (accident: 10 Aug 1908), aged 50, Collier, Fall of roof. On road while enlarging ; a coal side of a double road stall was being worked away to enlarge the roadway by 4 feet, so as to convert it into an incline. Above the coal is an irregular bed of shale, and this stratum was left unsupported after the coal had been withdrawn from beneath it. It had been ripped in the old part of the roadway hence it overhung in the new. While Evans was clearing away a portion of this bed which had been taken down, the overhanging stratum fell, and so injured him that he died on September 25th, 1908. No. 2 Rhondda Seam. Naked lights
						Evans, Frederick, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Griffiths, John, 01 Feb 1882, aged 37, Collier, Fall of coal
						Halkins, David, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Howells, Henry, 27 Jul 1887, aged 29, Collier, A shot of powder (loose) exploded while ramming it with a copper rammer. This shot was in the bottom (rock)
						Jenkins, William D., 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						John, Frank, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Jones, James, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Jones, Thomas, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Jones, W. H., 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Lewis, William, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Morgan, John, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Morgan, Thomas, 03 Mar 1894, aged 45, Drifter, Killed by an explosion of nitroglycerine while warming some water in a tin for the purpose of thawing a charge of dynamite. The nitrozglycerine is supposed to have exuded from the dynamite previously thawed and remained at the bottom of the tin
						Mort, John, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Owen, Owen, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Philips, Timothy, 14 Aug 1891, aged 41, Undermanager, While attempting to slide down a guide rope from the cage he fell a distance of about 10 yards and was killed
						Pugsey, Robert, 18 Jul 1895, aged 52, Collier, Killed by coal bursting off face owing to a heavy pounce in the rock roof in No. 3 Rhondda seam
						Rees, Samuel, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Talbos, Benjamin, 10 Jan 1884, aged 18, Collier, Fall of coal
						Thomas, Jeremy, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Thomas, William, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Williams, Abednego, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]
						Williams, Thomas, 19 Aug 1899, Explosion, firedamp, ignition caused by naked light [More information ...]

						29 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 , were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

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.

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Credits

Sources:

1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), South Wales District by Thomas E. Wales, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), South Wales District by Thomas E. Wales, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), South Wales District (No. 13) by Joseph T. Robson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), Swansea District (No. 11) by J. Dyer Lewis, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report