The Cambrian Colliery was a large coal mine that operated between 1872 and 1967 near Clydach Vale in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. It is notable for...

Cymru South. Cambrian & Clydach Vale was originally formed in 1965 as Cambrian United and was named after the local coal mine, Cambrian Colliery. In its formative...

both Cambrian and Cumbrian Wales Cambrian Colliery, a former coalmine in Wales Cambrian Way, a long-distance footpath in Wales Exercise Cambrian Patrol...

sons became managing partners and, in 1895, formed Cambrian Colleries Ltd. The Cambrian Collieries were a focus for disputation between active trade unions...

benefactors in the colliery owners and many took on the names of specific collieries. A memorable image of the connection between the collieries and brass bands...

University of Wales, Swansea, with further reading and external links Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale. c. 1910 on Welsh Coalmines historical website Commemorating...

and collieries opened within the Rhondda. A level is seen as a horizontal cut into a hill or mountain to access a seam of coal, while a colliery consists...

Valparaíso Region, Chile; 350–400 miners and residents died. May 17, 1965: Cambrian Colliery in South Wales; 31 died. May 28, 1965: Dhanbad coal mine disaster...

1905, just four months after the Cambrian Colliery disaster at Clydach Vale, an explosion at the National Colliery in Wattstown resulted in the deaths...

1908 the Cambrian Combine was formed, with the merger of the Glamorgan, the Naval and the Britannic Merthyr collieries with the Cambrian Collieries. This...