Local coal mines Gowerton, Waunarlwydd, Dunvant

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1 Local coal mines Gowerton, Waunarlwydd, Dunvant Name Source Location comments Opened /Abandoned Adair On Lliw marsh. Another name for Pwll y Plywf Alltwen RL/ Alltwen, Cefnstylle Before 1809/c SS Ballarat Beaufort RL/ BeiliGlas Berthlwyd RL/ Bishwell RL/ LLwynmawr, Cefnstylle SS Berthlwyd, Penclawdd SS East of Cefngorwydd Farm SS Box WmG Broadoak River side in Loughor Bryn Brynmawr RL/ / map North of Bishwell& Gower Road & LNWR railway SS , 3 men suffocated 1867, 1 man died Before 1867/ 1879 Before Working 1913 Before 1754/1887 PMM Page 1 30/10/2016 Owner Ysbyty Copper Works, Llangennech Coal Co (1827) see G 21 P Richards & Son 1867 Glasbrook& Co David Williams, Llansamlet, manager M Williams. See Padley Bros See 1874/1876 Brynmawr Coal Co. CaeDafydd JHR West of Gower Road 1886/1899 Evans, Loughor SS CaeLettys JHR Mansel Street, Gowerton Thomas Bros, Loughor CaeShenkyn Caedaffyd RL Caergynydd JHR Waunarlwydd Stanley Bros Cape sp Ty Gwyn / CefnBychan RL/ SS CefnGolau RL/ SS Cefngoleu JHR Cefnstylle No.1 SS SS or SS /1924 Cape Colliery Co. to 1920 Glasbrook Bros to 1924 /1884 Pearse Bros from Dunraven Estate Men 130, 400 in 1920

2 Cefngoleu No.2 JHR SS /1922 CefnGoleu Colliery Co.() Aeron Thomas(JHR) Cefngorwydd North of CefngorwyddFawr Padley Bros No 1 Cefngorwydd JHR East of CefngorwyddFawr No 2 Coalbrook Cwm y Glo RL/ SS /1930 Cwmbach RL SS Cwmbaci Cyntaf RL Danygraig Dan y Lan RL/ SS Before 1878/ before 1896 Duffryn Gower RL Dunvant RL/ SS Before 1873/1905 Reopened to serve S Padley to 1873 Philip Richard to 1905 Penlan Brickworks 1908 DunvantPenla RL/ SS Working 1913 Dunvant-Penlan Colliery Co. n Elba No.1 JHR North of Gower Road/Penclawdd railway SS , 7 men died, many injuries Before 1881, Working 1913 (?) Elba Steelworks manager J Knowle A. Ll. Pearse Bros, later Wright Butler (Elba Works) , Baldwins Elba Colliery Co (1910) Ltd., manager A Harding Elba No.2 JHR South of Gower Road to Cefnstylle Wright Butler & Co Elms/Old Caergynydd Reopened 1920 Garngoch No.1, No.2, No.3 Garngoch Common, Gorseinon Glasbrook Bros Gellieithrim /RL East of Cefngorwydd Farm Ss Before 1878/before 1896 Bishwell Colliery Padley Bros PMM Page 2 30/10/

3 Gellihir /RL SS Glanmorlais RL/ Glyled JHR Dunvant Padley Bros GorsLlewyina WmG Gorwydd RL/ South of GWR line Gower Road to Cockett SS Before 1827/ 1891 Gowerton RL/ SS /1920 Gwaith y Bwced WmG Bottom of Westfield, other side of GWR Jubilee Loughor KillanFach Sp Bryn y Glo and KillanPenclaw dd SS LNWR Dunvant station Before 1774/1892 KillanFawr Sp Bryn y Glo and KillanPenlan Klondyke Llwynmawr Maes y Gwaelod No. 1 Maes y Gwaelod No. 2 RL/ Dunvant SS or SS Near Mill Farm Llwynmawr, Cefnstylle SS LNWR Dunvant Station. 1924, men drowned Abandoned because of water From 1899 Working 1913, closed 1925 Llangennech Coal Co. Coal Padley Bros from 1850 to Alfred Sterry 1860 to Dunraven Estate. Killan& Three Crosses Colliery Co 1873 to 1884, then Western Coal Co to WW Homes & Co. Manager E Evans 1897/1903 John s Felinfoel Penclawdd SS /1883 Gregor Bros SS (approx.) drift 1903/after 1908 Maesygwaelod Colliery Co. Baldwins after Mansel RL Mountain WmG Gorseinon Mynyddbach Y Glo New Gorwydd North of GWR line Gower Road 1902 /1914 or 19 Alfred Sterry. 1913, New 90 PMM Page 3 30/10/2016

4 Penlan Pwll Bach Pwll Saint to Cockett SS Gorwydd Colliery Co. manager A John See p43 Penlan Colliery Co. Manager A Fleming Roseland Road Pwll y Cwcw Top of present day Park Road, Gowerton Ss Pwll y Cwm Cockett Pwll y Plwyf Gower Road to Penclawdd Parish Pit SS Redhead WmG Redwood WmG Rock Talyfrawe WmG / Tan y Heol RL/ In field between Rock House back gate and GorsFawr Brook Between Brithwen Road &GorsFawr Brook SS To 250 foot quay on Loughor River (?) Tygwyn JHR Present day Church Street, Gowerton Voylart RL/ SS Flooded 1877 Waunarlwydd Old Pit Worcester YstradIsaf SS Before 1857 /1880 Before 1815/1831 Llangennech Coal Co Before 1873/before 1896 Before 1846/1877 Reopened 1910/1918 Thos. Harvey Teschon,later Alfred Sterry 150 Sources: PMM Page 4 30/10/2016

5 Mrs Ruby Rowland, born 1918 in Waunarlwydd. Unpublished and oral history WmG William George, born??inwaunarlwydd. Unpublished work Yesterday s Waunarlwydd JHR J Hywel Rees of Gowerton. Talking about Gowerton, 1992 Gowerton Community Council Gower 21, Journal of the Gower Society 2001, Coal Mines in the Gower Peninsula, EM Bridges and PR Reynolds RL Ray Lawrence: The Collieries of the Swansea and Swansea Valley General Area, 2008, Ray Lawrence Oakdale PMM Page 5 30/10/2016