	Rhosydd (Slate)	Index	Rhosydd (Slate)

Rhosydd (Slate)

Location:	Tan-y-grisiau, Festiniog 15½ miles [25 km] SE of Caernarfon
Map Ref:	(Sheet 115 Snowdon) SH664461, 52° 59' 43" N, 3° 59' 27" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1880's - New Rhosydd Slate and Slab Co., Limited
	1890's - New Rhosydd Slate Quarry Co., Ltd.
Output:	1884 - Slate.
	1890 - Slate.
	1896 - Slate.
	1900 - Slate.
	1905 - Slate.
	1910 - Slate.
Employment:	1884 - 178 (90 below, 88 surface)
	1890 - 181 (105 below, 76 surface)
	1896 - 197 (116 below, 81 surface)
	1900 - 175 (101 below, 74 surface)
	1905 - 162 (102 below, 60 surface)
	1910 - 156 (91 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!

						Griffith, John R., 11 Dec 1893, aged 24, Rockman, Fall of a piece of slate weighing about 4 cwt which he was in the act of getting down. It caught his leg against a sharp stone and severed the main artery in the calf. Though his comrades succeeded in stopping the bleeding within eight minutes after the accident he died from the loss of blood and the shock in less two hours
						Jones, Owen, 12 May 1894, 10.30 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 50, Slate getter, His partner was on the working face getting down slate by crowbar after blasting. Jones heard a piece rolled down and ran to the side of the chamber where he would be in shelter but he was struck on the head by a stone which unexpectedly came to the very spot where he was standing
						Jones, Robert, 04 Nov 1886, aged 26, Rockman, Unexpected fall of rock from a pillar from the side of the chamber in which he was working. The men thought the place safe as they had sounded it a few days before the accident
						Roberts, Owen, 13 Sep 1905, aged 22, Labourer, A bridge over which he was tramming a loaded truck broke, and he fell to a depth of 14 yards. Killed on the spot
						Thomas, Owen, 18 Sep 1906, aged 37, Slate-getter, A large slab became detached from the working face and slid on to him, killing him on the spot
						Williams, John Charles, 08 Aug 1892, aged 17, Labourer, Williams and another man were working in the middle of a flat ledge of rock 15 to 20 feet wide with a precipice 40 feet deep on one side Williams got up to leave the ledge and somehow fell over the edge of the precipice and was killed. The work of getting the slate was being carried on in an unusual fashion more dangerous than the ordinary method
						Williams, Richard, 02 Apr 1884, aged 45, Miner, While engaged in removing some roof, known to be weak, a larger piece fell than he expected, and he was struck down by it and killed

						7 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), North Wales District by Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), North Wales, &c., and Isle of Man District (No. 9) by C. Le Neve Foster, 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
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Liverpool and North Wales District (No. 7) by Henry Hall, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Mineral Statistics for 1884 - Government report from the Mines Department (C 4430), published in 1885 — includes List of Mines and Openworks
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website